There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. – P. J. O’Rourke
We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries. – Elaine Chao
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay. – David Korten
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge – with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge. – Edmund Phelps
I’m developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it’s well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming. – Daniel Pauly
We cannot afford the EPA’s continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses. – Fred Upton
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. – Maurice Wilkins
The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market. – Mark Rutte
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 K. Chesterton
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. – N. R. Narayana Murthy
Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability. – Mark Pincus
One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories. – Gary Weiss
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.’s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. – Dee Dee Myers
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business. – Elon Musk
When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy. – Mark V. Hurd
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. – Earl Browder
That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity – in one word, our future. – Francois Hollande
There’s something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. – P. J. O’Rourke
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago. – Meir Kahane
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. – Donald Evans
If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses. – Denis Napthine
America’s peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most. – Edmund Phelps
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on. – Maurice Strong
The main cause of Europe’s deep fall – the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth – is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment. – Edmund Phelps
You know what ‘FAILING’ stands for? It stands for ‘Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.’ – Gary Busey
Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you’re looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby. – Debbie Ford
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. – Emanuel Celler
