Quotes About Growth

And why do we fall, Master Bruce? So that we might better learn to pick ourselves up.

If the p/e of Coca-Cola is 15, you'd expect the company to be growing at about 15 percent a year, etc. But if the p/e ratio is less than the growth rate, you may have found yourself a bargain. A company, say, with a growth rate of 12 percent a year (also known as a "12-percent grower") and a p/e ratio of 6 is a very attractive prospect.

The best way to handle a situation in which you love the company but not the current price is to make a small commitment and then increase it in the next sell-off.

I'm always on the lookout for great companies in lousy industries. A great industry that's growing fast, such as computers or medical technology, attracts too much attention and too many competitors.

It's best to divide your money among three or four types of stock funds (growth, value, emerging growth, etc.) so you'll always have some money invested in the most profitable sector of the market.

When we say this, we're assuming you are a long-term investor who is determined to stick with stocks no matter what.

Consider the size of a company if you expect it to profit from a specific product.

If you can't figure out what category your stocks are in, then ask your broker. If a broker recommended the stocks in the first place, then you definitely ought to ask, because how else are you to know what you're looking for? Are you looking for slow growth, fast growth, recession protection, a turnaround, a cyclical bounce, or assets?

Corporate profits are up fifty-five-fold since World War II, and the stock market is up sixtyfold. Four wars, nine recessions, eight presidents, and one impeachment didn't change that.

My advice for the next decade: Keep on the lookout for tomorrow's big baggers. You're likely to find one.

So while the smaller fast growers risk extinction, the larger fast growers risk a rapid devaluation when they begin to falter.

The combination of new equipment and new chemicals turned the American farm into the most efficient food bank on earth, capable of producing more wheat, corn, and so forth, per acre than any other country's farms in the history of agriculture.

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings.

Houses, like stocks, are most likely to be profitable when they're held for a long period of time. Unlike stocks, houses are likely to be owned by the same person for a number of years—seven, I think, is the average. Compare this to the

In Chapter 8, I argued that personal vision, by itself, is not the key to releasing the energy of the creative process. The key is "creative tension," the tension between vision and reality. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly.

That is why the discipline of managing mental models—surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works—promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

This "desire for efficacy" might be the desire to help a sick child, to solve a pressing problem, or to feel secure. One basic way to expand our efficacy is through modern science and technology. But another is through integrated (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual) growth and enhanced wisdom. This means growing in our sense of connection with nature and with one another and learning to live in ways that naturally cultivate our capacity to be human.

Until you do the inner work of learning how to see with "your eyes and your heart open," as Kabat-Zinn puts it, deep problems will persist.

reflexive loop":

people get used to having experts who can solve their problems for them; people can then easily lose motivation to develop their own capacities.

Organizations learn only through individuals who learn.

The Japanese believe building a great organization is like growing a tree; it takes twenty-five to fifty years.

Organizations intent on building shared visions continually encourage members to develop their personal visions.

love is the only emotion that expands intelligence