Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMNothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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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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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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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
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Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
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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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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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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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Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
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Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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