Growth Quote by Confucius

With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate…

— Simon Kuznets

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence…

— Thomas Malthus

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

— Adam Smith

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

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

— Frank Herbert

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

— Bob Beauprez

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely…

— Alan Greenspan

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

— Henry Wallich

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very…

— Janet Yellen

Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

— Michael Hudson

“If an economy has a stagnant labor force operating at a constant level of productivity, it will have constant output but no growth. The…

— James Rickards