No credential gives more credibility with investors than growth does.

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  The way to stay small is never to take other people's money: the moment you do, they want the largest return, and the enterprise playbook follows.

  Hansson says the way to stay small is never to take other people money, because the moment you do they want the largest return. Graham says growth impresses investors more than any credential — advice for the founder who has already decided to want them. Neither is wrong about the mechanism and they point at opposite doors.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

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• A company priced in the trillions is not thereby overpriced; the test is what revenues and margins that price actually requires. ADAswath Damodaran3 Dec 2025investing
• A founder who does not know their own goal dies by a thousand compromises and ends up running a company they do not want to work at. MPMark Pincus2 Jun 2026investing
• A government debt crisis is measurable and therefore visible well in advance; the diagnostic is mechanical rather than a matter of judgement. RDRay Dalio21 Aug 2026investing
• A margin of safety means paying a discount deep enough that being wrong about what a company is worth still leaves you whole. BABill Ackman20 Feb 2024investing

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