Quotes About Development

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

What should we change in our product development process? Eliminate waste? Increase quality? Raise efficiency? Shorten cycle time? The key to answering this question is to step back to a more basic question: Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer: to increase profits.

Our primary goal in product development is to make good economic choices. All proxy objectives, such as innovation, waste reduction, design for manufacturing, etc., should be viewed as secondary. They are a means to influence overall economic outcomes, never an end in themselves.

decentralized control is not simply a philosophy; it is a set of technical skills that can be developed and practiced.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

The development of hoplite warfare took place in this context of novel agrarianism, which promoted a particular type of moral excellence.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

Failure's a natural part of life.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.