A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the courage to give our best effort and not blame our flaws as the cause of failure.

It is just an affirmation that the Nasdaq represents the growth sector of the investment universe. That is where much money is being put to work the last month.

Lean manufacturing is at the core of our strategy to support our growth. You have to take waste out of everything. We only want to do things that our customers are willing to pay for.

Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those who choose to stay in a relationship or job long after the soul, or life force, that originally brought it...

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

We hope to encourage new ideas and accelerate the growth of our developer and affiliate communities.

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way.

When it’s about your life, it’s time to be selfish.

If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.

We believe the shares fail to reflect the company’s market position or growth potential. We believe overall margins have the potential to expand by 50 to 100 basis points over the next several years and operating profits can grow at a low double-digit rate. Earnings per share could expand by a low-teens rate over the...

Were you always such a snake,” the child asked, “or did you grow into what you are?

Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that’s opened. It’s a sign that you’re no longer that person you were, it’s time to...

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods tell me not to go to Asgard. I had witches tell me not to go to Flagstaff. You told me...

The group is trading well. The group has robust organic growth prospects.

Bringing in a lot of land not currently within the urban-growth area will be difficult, but I can’t say it would be illegal per se.

Despite the phenomenal growth of Las Vegas, the construction talent pool is not deep enough to provide the needed labor to build all currently announced projects. We believe if all announced and anticipated projects were to proceed before the end of the decade, a significant portion would not get off the ground given the limited...

Thought is creative – Fear attracts like energy – Love is all there is.

White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides …

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

I think they’ll need to see a lot of job growth, not just one month.

Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you.

Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn’t beautiful, neither are you.

At a group level we expect a strong operating performance and growth in market shares from the majority of our business lines, however increases in underlying profit will be slower if the general insurance trading margin reverts to its long-term sustainable range and if loan losses increase from current historic lows.

We’re very pleased with the growth of the independent programs in the metro Atlanta area.

We’ve now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that’s nothing to sneeze at.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

The engines for growth are not only early-stage life science and information technology, but additions and expansion, taking existing companies to a hundred employees and more.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

There’s clearly weakness in desktop PCs and strong growth in notebooks, but not enough to offset the decline in desktops.

It looks more like leapfrog growth to me.

TeenagerMe—a teenager? If she suddenly stood, here, now, before me, would I need to treat her as near and dear, although she’s strange to me, and distant? Shed a tear, kiss her brow for the simple reason that we share a birthdate? So many dissimilarities between us that only the bones are likely still the...

Love dies only when growth stops.

China made concessions on the duration of the limits while the United States made concessions on the growth rate.

I love the smell of rain and growing things.

Finding the reason to live doesn’t put you on top, it’s the hardships faced in process that get you there.

You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don’t recognizemy little crayon picture.It appears to be meand it isand it is not.

Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

We’re seeing a lot of growth out of Buford and out of Braselton that’s putting challenges on the quality of development we’re seeing in this community.

If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions-freedom, growth and joy-will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your “career” as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or...