Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

My kids learned to be independent.

You live, you learn.

In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favorable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

Britain without us you can grow no stronger. We can grow tenfold without her.

I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

Like a mountain that's growing.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we'll see what happens.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

That world is growing in this minute.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.

We are happy when we are growing.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Every collaboration helps you grow.