Negative Growth Quotes

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

State-controlled Associated Press: 'The gross domestic product declines 1% in the second quarter, better than expected.' The bottom line is the economy is still shrinking! It's contracting. There's negative growth. One percent, big whoop, we're supposed to feel happy about this? The only thing that would make me happy about this is if I saw a story that said the government shrunk by 1%. Then we'd be making progress.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.