Benjamin Graham Quotes about Growth

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

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

Benjamin Graham

Intelligent, Growth, Investing

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

Achievement, Forever, Growth

Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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

Benjamin Graham

Growth, Investing, Profit

Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.7, Harper Collins

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

Benjamin Graham

Long, Growth, Important

Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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.

Benjamin Graham

Growth, Defeat, Teach

"Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Units, p. 103, 1937.