Benjamin Graham Quotes

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

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• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

  

  Harlan Coben
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  • Happy
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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Escaping

• The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hair

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Growth
  • Famous

• There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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  • Different
  • Family

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Man
  • Black

• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • History
  • Funny

• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Time
  • Change
  • Day

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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  • Good
  • Love

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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  • Family
  • Man

• All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Sound
  • Down

• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

  Barry McGee
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  • Art
  • History

• I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • Up
  • Business
  • Kids

• Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Real
  • Couple

• Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Looking

• Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Think
  • Light
  • Spread

• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  

  Benjamin Graham
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  • Growth