Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.
The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable – there is financial stability – and that is the role that the central bank plays.
Fiscal policy should balance growth, equity, and sustainability concerns, including protecting society’s most vulnerable.
One of the great constraints on economic growth and employment is that the tax and benefits system has grown up over generations and does not give the right incentives. Increasing the minimum wage does not solve this problem.
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
Coming to the growth potential in financial services, there is enough data to show that, usually, financial services grow about twice or two and a half times of what the economy, the GDP growth rates.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Oil is a very important component of economic growth.
In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is clear.
So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we’ve seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.
I’m a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
Although the precariat does not consist simply of victims, since many in it challenge their parents’ labouring ethic, its growth has been accelerated by the neoliberalism of globalisation, which put faith in labour market flexibility, the commodification of everything, and the restructuring of social protection.
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government’s work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
It’s a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.
We now have the economics confirming that not only is climate action required to reduce climate risks, but that it is vital to building long-term, sustainable economic growth.
An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It’s a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I’d actually say that I don’t think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest.
There’s something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
I believe failures are very important in any person’s growth. I’ve learnt what not to do from them.
Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.
If we wish our state’s growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
With the incredible rate of growth of autism diagnoses in New Jersey, it is critical that we support the research, education, and access to services that individuals on the autism spectrum and their families need.
But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it’s not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can’t control the growth of government.
I am overall optimistic about India’s growth.
I think the most beautiful thing is that we’re not parting because there were problems. We’re parting because we’re celebrating each others’ growth.
Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China’s emissions would replace America’s emissions in 12 years.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what’s unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.
‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice”s story is one of fate and growth.
One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
I am constantly hungry for growth and that’s what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn’t drive me.
