Quotes About Growth

Big companies have small moves, small companies have big moves.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded—Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio (I continue to pick my share of losers, too!) generally takes three to ten years or more to play out.

Look for small companies that are already profitable and have proven that their concept can be replicated. • Be suspicious of companies with growth rates of 50 to 100 percent a year.

When looking at the same sky, people in mature industries see clouds where people in immature industries see pie.

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life

It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced

breakthroughs come when people learn how to take the time to stop and examine their assumptions.

Sometimes, no matter how smart you are, you can't avoid getting tripped up.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

A better brand = better clients = a better, more profitable business

What we find changes who we become.

The journey transforms the destination.