Quotes About Development

That is why development cannot be seen purely as an economic affair, but rather as an overall social process which is dependent upon the outcome of man's efforts to deal with his natural environment.

It is in line with racist prejudice to say openly or to imply that their countries are more developed because their people are innately superior, and that the responsibility for the economic backwardness of Africa lies in the generic backwardness of the race of black Africans.

The fact of the matter is that the most profound reasons for the economic backwardness of a given African nation are not to be found inside that nation.

One of the things which they do to confuse the issue is to place all underdeveloped countries in one camp and all developed countries in another camp irrespective of different social systems; so that the terms capitalist and socialist never enter the discussion, Instead, one is faced with a simple division between the industrialized nations and those that are not industrialized.

Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Get something to improve yourself at least 1% each day

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Go to bed a little smarter each day.

an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.

The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers.

The falls of our life provide us with the energy to propel ourselves to a higher level.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

Take on difficulties while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.