Growth Quotes

"A nation will prosper only when its young people thrive" "Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting." "You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem" "For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up—that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn’t otherwise create. It’s about giving them tools; it is about empowering people" "Retention is the game." "Innovation accelerates and compounds, so we see richer ideas per unit of time." "Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it" "Everything is practice" "Keep getting after it and eventually you will get stronger" "You have to learn to adjust to your surroundings to have any real impact" "You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as the end" "Your ability to execute to an ever-increasing and impressive set of goals increases with experience and learning from past failures" "The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past" "The only way to handle failure is to get up and try again" "The greatest teacher, failure is" "There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions" "Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and embrace change is your greatest strength." "Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know." "It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it becomes rigid and stale" "We’re making a step—it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step"