In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMWe define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
BENJAMIN GRAHAMAlways buy your straw hats in the Winter
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The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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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.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMI 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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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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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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It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
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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.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMNearly 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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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMIt is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
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It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.
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The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
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