Do not let anyone else run your business
BENJAMIN GRAHAMKnowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock’s proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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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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While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
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Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
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To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
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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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In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
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There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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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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you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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