They want to encourage well-planned economic growth. It sets the table for further development.

Bill Purcell

A trade deficit like this is unacceptable, ... It lowers our GDP growth.

Peter Morici

I can't understand why one would pay so much for a company that has below-average potential growth.

Martin Possienke

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon

There's a general consensus from this conference that China and its growth is not a threat but a tremendous opportunity.

Bob Hawke

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Tim Wallace

We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected.

Michel Alaby

Primarily our strategy is organic growth, buttressed by acquisitions.

Martin Sorrell

We believe the area has a lot of growth ? a lot of opportunities for us. We can serve our customers well by being in that market.

Kevin Mccall

You get a good taste of the whole economy. You are capturing all the growth areas, whether it is investment in real estate or [capital expenditures] or credit-card growth.

Andrew Holland

The potential for growth and value creation is greater in the group's other operations.

Todd Stitzer

We are now at an inflection point where I think growth is going to start accelerating.

David Hilal

The continued success and growth just proves that God meant us to be here.

Nate Skoda

The growth in the economy is not going to families, ... It's in stark contrast to what happened during the Clinton Administration.

Jack Reed

With success comes growth.

Ryan Murphy

The declining price of gasoline echoes a recent drop in crude oil prices. The drop in oil appears to be due to continued growth in domestic oil inventories.

Kris Lathan

It's been a major growth industry since 9 / 11.

Richard Mason

Volume growth accelerated at the end of (the second quarter) and has continued to accelerate in quarter three.

Alan Graf

Growth will accelerate. The environment around the bond market toward the end of March will not be so good.

Seiji Shiraishi

Our overall corporate objective continues to be a minimum 15% top- and bottom-line growth.

John Heinmiller

We're in a growth mode, and we're trying to catch up.

David Nicholson

Clear leadership and support for our frontline staff is of critical importance to the future growth and development of the Group.

Fred Goodwin

The trade deficit is much more responsive to the growth and consumption differential than to exchange rates.

David Malpass

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.

Douglas Jerrold

We see opportunities for growth (as being) stronger outside the UK at the moment.

Ben Gunn

Either we head into a more serious crisis, which will hit economic growth, or we abandon reform for a year. In both cases it is a failure for France.

Marc Touati

As long as it was [kept] in the unincorporated area, the county could control the growth.

Barbara Alterman

We would like to achieve a balance between cities with growth potential and those that can give you immediate yields.

Katherine Tsang

Our cholesterol franchise continues to be a critical growth driver.

Fred Hassan

I was really overwhelmed by the growth opportunities at Nike.

William Perez

From about the late 1970s to 2001, the catfish industry had a steady growth.

Jamey Clary

Hernando County is a really exciting area. We feel there is a tremendous opportunity for intelligent growth.

John Heagney

The growth is happening here. We are culturally confined by Japan, the US and Europe. Our business is governed by the European and American mindset. You must see all the global options.

Fred Kindle

We're really looking at what we can do with less land. As growth continues and land remains at a premium, we can't always afford to buy land.

Dianne Kramer

You're looking at a very modest premium to its growth rate.

Bob Turner

It's very difficult to break in there but [the majors] can't stop trying because that's where the best growth demand for petroleum consumption has been.

Lysle Brinker

The fundamental business model is intact. The path for growth continues to be strong.

April Horace

We will continue to drive for at least 10 to 12 percent annual earnings growth.

Charles O. Holliday

A self-sustaining recovery depends on job growth. And I think we will get some going forward.

Gerald Cohen

Growth is going to happen. You people as a community will determine how it happens.

Dwayne Lee

In 2006 it is expected that with the continued growth and deployment of new products, there will be over 1,000 employees in Baltimore County.

Jim Gordon

The whole town benefits from economic growth. The whole town should pay their fair share.

Kevin Rohrer

A lot of Internet businesses are based on aggregating information, ... H.R. 354 could really stifle the growth of all kinds of Internet businesses.

Jonathan Band

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

Barbara Ryan

We are confident of delivering in 2006 another year of dynamic growth with record sales and earnings.

Daniel Vasella

All this is an artifact of the growth that's occurring here.

Dave Addison

Coal remains an important material basis for the country's economic growth and social development.

Liu Shijin

We feel increasingly confident that 2006 will be a year when top-line, earnings growth and margins will accelerate.

Michael Steib

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck

The 40,000 square-foot expansion underway will help us deal with that growth.

Steve Harrison

We are on a fast growth track and are excited to bring Brian onto the team.

Gordon Ommen

However, we continue to believe in the growth of our industry and Winnebago Industries.

Bruce Hertzke

After that conversation everything was very positive. I thought he really bought into what we were trying to do. It was not a great experience for me, the fact that we lost, but it was a great experience to see his growth.

Larry Brown

This action will provide Ball with greater flexibility for future growth.

David Hoover

We see this as a major growth area for IBM .

Nigel Beck

It's a question of growth management.

Cindy Houben

We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.

Haseeb Ahmed

In particular, it will have to succeed in combining growth-enhancing measures with a debt consolidation process.

Vincenzo Guzzo

We're certainly excited about what we have in our product pipeline, ... We're looking for continued growth for the company.

Peter Oppenheimer

The leading economic indicators suggest moderate growth into the fall.

Ken Goldstein

It's only one piece of the overall growth effort.

Marc Mathieu

If we were just following the money, you'd see a growth of clinics in North Oaks.

Bruce Rueben

Throughout the region, the prospect for growth is quite great.

Stephen Pelletier

This past year's results affirmed our ability to scale for growth.

Charlie Peters

It deserves a premium due to its scale, diversity and growth.

Steve Roukis

We hope we can double the growth rate, compared to the industry's.

Liu Jun

It was profitable before, but with the additional growth, the bottom-line percentage has increased.

Leo White

We expect firm profit growth to support the equity market.

Stephen Halmarick

Achieve future sustained savings and profitable growth.

Alain Belda

The market is not only based on yield, but also on growth. The market is anticipating that profit growth is going to improve.

Chris Reilly

Growth in core earnings will be benign as revenue growth moderates.

Manuel Pangilinan

We are still a young company, but we see a lot of growth coming.

Chuck Hamley

But any of you who have dealt with me at all know that slow growth and me don't go hand in hand so well together.

Leslie Moonves

Future growth looks a little less robust than analysts had been expecting.

Jamelah Leddy

These are good growth stocks and we think the earnings are going to continue to keep growing.

Don Hodges

The move to a cash dividend is evidence of the board's confidence in the growth and sustainability of the company's future earnings and cash flows.

George Lindemann

I felt the bottled water industry would be a huge growth industry. I was always looking for a better bottle.

David Zutler

I think there's still lots of room for growth.

Linda Jones

ABS (issuance) will be down a little bit in the coming year because most of the growth was in the home equity sector.

Dan Castro

We are going to have growth in the first quarter above 4.5 percent.

Guillermo Ortiz

Growth rates (on sales) are comparable to what we saw before the hurricanes nationally.

Michael Mcnamara

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Tabare Vazquez

We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, particularly About.com, ... But elsewhere, advertising is weaker than expected.

Janet Robinson

Pharmaceuticals and electronics will continue to drive growth. The services and construction sectors will also contribute.

Leslie Tang

Their biggest issue is: What do they want to be in the next stage of their growth?

Jon Kutler

We're really excited about growth internationally.

David Glass

That's probably the biggest growth in him during the year.

Bernie Botheroyd

Our state's most talented should have the opportunity to attend college and be the engines that drive the state's future economic growth.

Brian Schweitzer

With labor markets eroding rapidly, external growth faltering badly, and domestic inflation low and falling, the Fed can afford to err on the side of accommodation.

Robert Diclemente

Our population continues to grow, so we have had to add positions to handle that growth.

Francis Moore

The market is clearly concerned about the slowing trend in sales growth for almost all of the divisions.

Scott Marshall

We are betting on growth of 20% in revenues when compared to last year.

Valter Patriani

Thus far, we have no evidence of any growth that would suggest we are seeing any spores.

Neal Cohen

The biggest star of this, as far as job growth, was health care and social assistance employment.

Michele Hiester

We have this potential, this opportunity to grow (at) twice the industry average growth.

Yang Yuanqing

The company continues to deliver quality earnings growth above our stated goals.

Jack Schuessler

It's a delicate balance. A lot of the growth is coming out of emerging markets but ... that's less profitable growth.

John Slack

It's probably not one of the best long-term growth strategies.

John Gavin

Growth in the gateways would allow Kenyans to make calls from anywhere at a reduced rate.

Mutahi Kagwe

It's strong across the board. We're seeing double-digit growth -- that's pretty dramatic -- and strong growth on the consumer side.

Diane Glossman

When you look at the fundamentals here – the type of growth and the type of growth you expect – the pricing isn't there.

Lyssa Jenkens

Unfortunately, earnings growth expectations are still too high. We continue to learn about that.

Marshall Acuff

It would mean the economy's ability to continue at the current rate of growth is better.

Steve Tsang

My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace.

Nicholas Garganas

The pageant's continued vitality and growth.

Art Mcmaster

TD has a good growth story.

Brenda Lum

There are a lot of bargains out there in large-cap growth stocks.

Brian Gendreau

This agreement trades discounts for achieved market share and growth.

Ray Elliott

While 2001 was a challenging year, we believe we are now entering a period of renewed growth.

Rob Glaser

We believe the growth will also be rapid in Taiwan.

Hiroyuki Oda

Novell and Red Hat are very expensive stocks, even with their strong growth.

Richard Williams

We kind of have to go where the growth is.

Dave Eskelsen

We're looking forward to another season of growth.

Bruce Bustamante

There are areas of weakness. It seems growth is difficult for banks, which I would attribute to a flat yield curve and higher funding costs.

Mark Batty

European growth is projected to average less than U.S. growth for a tenth consecutive year.

Carl B. Weinberg

There's so much in the way of new things that are going on that are basically going to generate that kind of growth. All these things are going to lead to bigger TV contracts and bigger advertising and sponsorship numbers.

John Connaughton

Earnings growth for oil companies was exceptional and you can't expect that to happen every year.

Rolf Elgeti

The issue for us was one of community safety. The federal government does not have the ability to keep up with the growth, so we're enhancing their ability. That's the bottom line.

Undersheriff Neil Lingle

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Chuck Jones

Feed his growth. He needs somebody to feed him besides his mom.

Jennifer Scott

BP's growth was the main disappointment in 2005 due to hurricane disruptions. Growth should bounce back in 2006.

Jonathan Wright

Job growth in the remainder of the country appeared to be below trend in October.

Kathleen Utgoff

It's kind of a natural growth for us.

Pat O'connell

It's no coincidence at all that we've had strong economic growth after the tax cuts.

Dan Mitchell

The doom and gloom scenarios about no growth in PCs this year have given way to expectations of 10 percent growth rates.

Richard Whittington

I've seen an exponential growth since the two years I've been coaching.

Dave Pieknik

Growth is good because this place was completely abandoned.

Manuel Hernandez

We would have to build between five and eight new schools each year just to keep up with growth.

Tim Shea

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Vita Sackville west

Our school board is committed to ongoing professional growth and development for staff.

David Wilkerson

Our job is to get our client a job he wants to be at and where there is potential room for growth.

James Simmons

[MacMillan] has big shoes to fill and he's inheriting a legacy of 20% earnings growth.

Mark Landy

So one would hope that China's investment would be broader and that it would contribute not only to China's development and growth ... but it would also contribute to Africa's growth and development.

Jendayi Frazer

It is an opportunity for personal growth and it opens more avenues for me.

Daniel Ngwepe

We're in high growth-mode right now.

Derek Harp

Unrestrained growth. Too much shopping. Too, too much!

Aaron Adams

I'm a bit concerned about the growth going forward. For an economy the size of China I can't imagine that continuing for a long time.

Yiping Huang

The biggest story for us is our continued growth at 5 o'clock.

Bill Evans

We designed this for 2010. We anticipated growth. We spent a lot of years on this project.

Steve Lantsberger

We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future.

Jeffrey Immelt

Radio stocks are in growth purgatory.

Michael Russell

Lower annual pay and lower pay growth can flow through the economy, because it also means lower consumption, which effects businesses.

Beadsie Woo

Those are all signs the government is taking the matter very seriously and that will have an impact on growth.

Rafael Ber

The most powerful catalyst for growth is not piracy, but partnership.

Peter Chernin

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Virginia Satir

We're excited about the club's growth. We're excited with the direction the program is going.

Chris Waterbury

In the 2006 to 2010 timeframe, the business plan calls for earnings per share growth of approximately 16.5 percent.

Barry Perry

Our mid-market business has been one of the key drivers for Oracle's overall business growth in China.

Roger Li

We do kind of expect that a lot of commercial and even residential growth follows.

Randy Tennison

As far as the business is concerned, we are in our infancy. But we're selling all the cheese that we're producing, and we're in rapid growth.

Mateo Kehler

We're feeling better about our top-line growth.

Colleen Healy

The emerging market is absolutely where the growth is right now.

Kevin Burden

If you cut it back in the winter, you run the risk of encouraging more growth.

Heather Housman

We've had more growth in the last five years in this coastal region than we had in the previous 10 years.

Vernon Martin

I don't see Microsoft ever being considered a high-growth company again.

Wendell Perkins

We had not expected such strong growth. I suppose we were a little overcautious.

Jussi Hyoty

Every sign right now points to job growth. The jobs are there.

Paul Reilly

Shares of banks in emerging markets have a much larger growth potential than banks in developed Europe.

Mario Pierry

Can Asia be the driver of growth? Yes.

Jim Walker

When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good.

John Aiken

Exports and imports will be the main growth drivers next year.

David Hong

We have an opportunity to do so much more as a state and create this entrepreneurial growth economy that is without equal in the U.S..

Bob Mcmahan

It's a business that is driving growth today and we expect will drive growth in the future.

Amanda Pires

Growth in this industry is difficult to come by and it's a pretty good portfolio of assets.

William Schmitt

There are genuine concerns about economic growth globally, and there's earnings pressure from a lot of places.

Hilary Cook

This is the first that I've heard of Gap actually revealing what their growth plan is for the brand.

Joseph Beaulieu

I agree with growth, but it was done too fast, and I don't think the town has the finances to support it.

Jeff Marlow

The idea is to get them established in some nice old-growth hemlock stands.

Tom Remaley

I've no doubt that this growth will accelerate, not only for us but for the whole market.

Akhil Gupta

What's happening now is you've got huge growth.

Peter Farmer

We were thinking it would be more along the lines of 10 percent production growth, so it was a little disappointing.

Brian Kuzma

This is really a continuation of growth we see in 2004, ... We're out of the deals' costs and into the positive synergy momentum.

Keith Sherin

We are at 8 percent, we want to aim for 10 percent (growth). This budget takes us forward.

Tarun Das

We're going to see a rapid growth in production and use of ethanol.

Brian Jennings

Growth will be about 16% this year. That's good, but not spectacular. I don't see any shortages this year.

Will Strauss

When you hear about Vietnam, it's always about economic growth.

Thuy Nguyen

We view aerospace industries as one of the key growth sectors for Colorado.

Patty Silverstein

In the past, our growth has been by referral of current clients. We've never really done much marketing.

Kate Fenner

I think this sector will be hot with ups and downs for years to come -- its part of a global consolidation in growth business.

James Ginsburg

Overall retail sales growth in December should be robust.

David Greenlaw

It's not like they are on the brink, but the growth party is over for now.

E. Hurley

This is about growth and taking this whole category to the next level.

Ed Colligan

We are at the bottom of European economic growth, ... Schroeder had four years to fight unemployment and did nothing.

Edmund Stoiber

It is a year for modest economic growth and therefore modest earnings growth.

Edward Menashy

When all is said and done, the fact of the matter is we will have double-digit earnings growth for the S&P 500.

Elizabeth Mackay

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Ellen Goodman

These bids are the expression of future growth for Germany companies. German groups are thinking about their future and about expanding.

Emmanuel Soupre

We remain confident that digital music will return the industry to growth in due course.

Eric Nicoli

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

E. F. Schumacher

That's just basically due to the growth we've had over the year.

Freddie Brown

We see sturdy hiring as a factor that continues to support U.S. economic growth.

Ed Mckelvey

The really surprising thing is the lack of inflation given this kind of growth.

Edward Mckelvey

And that's invaluable for growth.

Elizabeth Langland

China continues to be a growth engine in our group.

Elan Lee

This stream, this stream supposed to go through over there, but all the growth - ah, so much growth - the river come around that now.

Elton Kaahu

This was good profitability on very good revenue growth.

Eric Coldwell

We have to address the growth. Equally as important is college readiness for our average student population.

Everett Mitchell

As we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to a growth track.

Alfred Adler

It's difficult to sustain a growth rate like we've been seeing.

Ed Feigenbaum

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

Edward Lazear