It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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High valuations entail high risks.
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The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
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If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ.
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Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
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Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
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No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the “margin of safety” – never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be – can you minimize your odds of error.
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The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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