Benjamin Graham Growth Quotations

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.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline