Quotes About Development

The child is father to the man, and gingery young Churchill was a pretty runty sort of kid.

People don't change. Things do.

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

At present society is composed, not so much of men and women, as of the raw material of men and women, which it will be the office of a higher civilization to work up into the forms of a truer manhood and womanhood.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

I was always of the opinion that progress made things easier. But it don't look that way to me. If anything, things seem more complicated. Is that the whole idea of progress - to complicate matters?

Technology innovation is not going to slow down. The work to manage it needs to speed up

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

IBM veteran and computer science professor Frederick Brooks argued that adding manpower to complex software projects actually delayed progress.

Every interesting thing I've ever done, every important thing I've ever done, every beneficial thing I've ever done, has been through a cascade of experiments and mistakes and failures,

But then he offered this: 'The things that people are going to feel are still to come. The kind of impact this is going to have on our cities -ninety-five or ninety-eight percent of it is still yet to happen. What if I said there's still going to be no traffic in any major city in the U.S. in five years?

Bezos believed that high margins justified rivals' investments in research and development and attracted more competition, while low margins attracted customers and were more defensible.

Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time.

Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: "Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.

You have to start somewhere,' he said. 'You climb the top of the first tiny hill and from there you see the next hill.

One of the paradoxes of growth is that growth creates complexity and complexity is the silent killer of growth," said Bain director James Allen in the video.

All new hires had to directly improve the outcome of the company. He wanted doers—engineers, developers, perhaps merchandise buyers, but not managers. "We didn't want to be a monolithic army of program managers, à la Microsoft. We wanted independent teams to be entrepreneurial," says Neil Roseman. Or, as Roseman also put it: "Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.

companies to acquire other firms only when they had fully mastered their virtuous circles, and then "as an accelerator of flywheel momentum, not a creator of it.

Progress eventually finds a way, especially when the difference between what is being considered and what exists is so, so massive and obvious.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement,