Circumstances Quote by Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

People are reasonably good at estimating how things add up, but for compounding, which involved repeated multiplication, we fail to appreciate how quickly things…

— Paul Romer

“Value-added time produces multiplication and production”

— Sunday Adelaja

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.”

— Eknath Easwaran

“speaking the language of multiplication (that is, higher growth by better utilizing the resources that already exist).”

— Liz Wiseman

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means…

— Nassau William Senior

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Increasing complexity is unsustainable”

— Giles Colborne

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."

— T. Harv Eker

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace