Quotes about Growth

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

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

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.