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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

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Benjamin Graham
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 8
Died: 1976
Died: September 21
Economist
Financier
Investor
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Difficult
Brilliant
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Achievement
Keep
Size
Unusually
Cannot
Increase
Registered
Growth
Rapid
Already
Rapids
Company
Repetition
Forever
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