Quotes about Development
Solar cells, for example, got almost 10 times cheaper between 2010 and 2020, and the price of a full solar system went down by 11 percent in 2019 alone.
- Bill Gates
That's nearly 600 pounds for every person in the country. And we're not even the biggest consumers of the stuff—that would be China, which installed more concrete in the first 16 years of the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century!
- Bill Gates
Natural gas followed a similar trajectory. In 1900, it accounted for 1 percent of the world's energy. It took seventy years to reach 20 percent. Nuclear fission went faster, going from 0 to 10 percent in 27 years.
- Bill Gates
The world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases. Now the problem seemed even harder.
- Bill Gates
Almost seventy-five percent of our leaders have come right out of Willow. These are people who have proven their character, competence, and chemistry fit while serving in volunteer positions within our ministry.
- Bill Hybels
If you're a serious-minded leader, you will read.
- Bill Hybels
We all play our roles. One person plants the seed, another waters it, but it grows only when the season is right.
- Ted Dekker
Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.
- Jurgen Habermas
We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
- Reid Hoffman
Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
- Dan Quinn
The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.
- Eli Yishai