Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMA stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
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Do not let anyone else run your business
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Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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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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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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A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
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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 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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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
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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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Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
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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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