Growth Rate Quotes

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

Innovation accelerates and compounds.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

Rising inequality leads to less sustainable growth.

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

If we had 3 percent growth, which is what we're trying to get to, what we're at, by the way, right now, we're trying to maintain that 3 percent growth. If we had been at 3 percent growth over the last ten years, the budget very nearly would be balanced in 2017. That's how big a difference it makes when you grow the American economy that additional 1 percent over ten years.

The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

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.

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.

A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

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

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

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.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

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

The world economy is growing so fast.