Expansion and Contraction Quotes

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

That which shrinks must first expand.

Empires being neither up nor down do not fall. They change their appearance.

Business cycles in emerging markets behave differently from developed markets.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.