To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
BENJAMIN GRAHAMBefore you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor’s own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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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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there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history’s repeating itself on many different counts. You don’t get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
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The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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