Quotes About Growth

would take only $1.33 million invested in the stock market in 1802 to grow, with dividends reinvested, to about $18 trillion, the total value of U.S. stocks, by the end of 2012. The sum of $1.33 million in 1802 is equivalent to roughly $25 million in today's purchasing power, an amount far less than the value of the stock market at that time.

The price investors paid for IBM was just too high. Even though the computer giant trumped Standard Oil on growth, Standard Oil trumped IBM on valuation, and valuation determines investor returns.

value stocks have actually done better than growth stocks during both bear markets and economic recessions, so it is doubtful this is the answer.

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

All the social ills that law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to learn and grow.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

I don't change. The things around me change.

The superior performance of the original S&P 500 firms surprises most investors. But value investors (as described in Chapter 12) know that growth stocks often are priced too high, and excitement over their prospects often induces investors to pay too high a price. Profitable firms that do not catch investors' eyes are often underpriced. If investors reinvest the dividends of such firms, they are buying undervalued shares that will add significantly to their return.

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

It made me feel that bad things could happen but they didn't have to stay bad. Sometimes they could get better, with a bit of help.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

You know yourselves how slippery is the path of youth—a path on which I have myself fallen, and which you are now traversing not without fear.

The fruit which is an hundredfold and that which is sixtyfold both spring from one seed

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

The purpose of education is to produce autonomous learners who can continue to learn after they leave school.

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

You went to somewhere to do something with an anticipated goal in mind, something you couldn't do elsewhere and be the same Self.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

You don't suppose this kind of thing is ever finished, do you? Tomorrow it'll be something else-and another fella will have to stand up. And you've helped give him the guts to do it!

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.