The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .
The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.
It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.
This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality. . . . Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it. . . . when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital. . . Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
