Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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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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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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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
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The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
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Undervaluations 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.
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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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