• If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 24 votes · 132 reads

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• It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 4 reads

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• Love dies only when growth stops.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 41 reads

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 84 reads

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• Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 87 reads

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• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 82 reads

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• 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.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 36 reads

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• The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.8 · 22 votes · 194 reads

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• The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 41 reads

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• The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 148 reads

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• The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 179 reads

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• The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.8 · 58 votes · 62 reads

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.4 · 45 votes · 47 reads

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 188 reads

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• There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 137 reads

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• There is no growth without discontent.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 13 votes · 54 reads

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• Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 52 reads

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• We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 183 reads

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• When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 186 reads

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• Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 126 reads

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• You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 168 reads

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• You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 148 reads

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