Peter Senge Quotes

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

Large profits mean large payrolls.

When tax assessments and imposts upon the subjects are low, the latter have the energy and desire to do things. Cultural enterprises grow and increase, because the low taxes bring satisfaction.

With the Clinton higher tax rates for the top two brackets, we had the longest and strongest economic expansion in U. S. history.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

China has come a long way from being a nation of opium addicts to the status of a global power

One of the most important features of the later stages of capitalist civilization is the vigorous expansion of the educational apparatus and particularly of the facilities for higher education.

Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory.

Capitalism in one century of growth has enormously increased its power, not only through expansion over the entire earth, but also through development into new forms

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

Growth is a result. It is not a policy.

Africa, Asia and the Middle East—the lands of the rising people.

I see huge potential for the league and also for America.

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

Growth is essential to providing economic opportunity.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.