In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMUndervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.
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Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.
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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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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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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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Calculate a stock’s price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham’s formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
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In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities.
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Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.
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Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
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Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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