Growth Limitation Quotes

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.

A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.

If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

How do you stop somebody from growing?

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.