Quotes About Development

fiction. As I grew older I read more widely.

Planning continued through the week,

eliminating it would be a big step backward.

We quickly developed a good working relationship.

to respond flexibly to economic developments without the constraint of an announced target.

But developing a cost-effective program, without being unfair to borrowers who had faithfully paid their mortgages, would take considerable time.

I don't think we're there yet, but we're getting closer.

They remained basically flat through 2011 before starting to recover.

In that respect, it seemed to me, the Federal Reserve was behind the times.

The growth, however, had not yet translated into a significant improvement in the job market.

In my own thinking, I tended to emphasize developments in broader economic indicators—the forest rather than the trees—but I appreciated that the chairman's approach could sometimes yield interesting insights that more standard analyses might miss.

meeting by summarizing key financial developments

an area in which we had little or no expertise. And,

Hank was initially noncommittal. He knew that he and his team would have to lead the effort to develop a legislative proposal and sell it to Congress.

For me, one of the most important developments in Europe was a change in the leadership of the European Central Bank.

The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

by 2025, 440 cities with a collective population of 600 million (7% of all people) will account for half of worldwide gross domestic product.

It is a memorable and counterintuitive fact that the invention of the city came long before the invention of the wheel.

See, there's nothing wrong with the past; the past is a good thing, but that's not all there is.

I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me. It's boring.