Jimmy Wales Quotes

We are rapidly—I was about to say, fearfully—growing.

Our first 100 rides took us one-and-a-half years from the time we started in January 2011. It was only after that we started scaling up rapidly.

Life itself is exponential.

The boom is getting boomier.

From the day I arrived, I could see City's project was destined to be a success and the club would grow - but I didn't think it would be quite so fast.

Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.

The world economy is growing so fast.

The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.

While monetary policy can contribute to growth by supporting a durable expansion in a context of price stability, it cannot reliably affect the long-run sustainable level of the economy's growth.

Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

You can’t beat this prosperity thing.

The worst failures of the Federal Reserve have come from waiting too long tp tighten monetary policy during expansions, not from loosening it too much during recessions.

The speed, scale and reach of China’s rise are without precedent in modern history. Within just 30 years, China’s economy has gone from smaller than the Netherlands to larger than those of all other countries except the United States.

From 1891 to 1972, U. S. productivity grew at an average rate of 2.33 percent, which is high, but then it dropped substantially so that from 1972-1996 it averaged only 1.38 percent. In other words, the Reagan tax cuts and deregulation did not spur productivity growth, even allowing for a long time.

American elites, singularly undamaged and actually empowered by the most destructive war in history, idealized their exceptional experience — of individual self-seekers achieving more or less continuous expansion under relatively thin traditional constraints — into a model of universal development

Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.

When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down, people try to find fault and excuses.

Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.

Typically, after moving backwards, the economy takes even more steps forward.

This country is bursting.

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of.

Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.

My belief is India's banking industry will continue to grow at two and a half times the GDP growth rate.

We got two examples in recent history from this country. One in the '80s under President Reagan. One under President Clinton and the Democratic-controlled Congress in the '90s. We had nearly 5 percent growth rate in each of those decades. We can do it again for sure.