In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMNever mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
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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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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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Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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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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Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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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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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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Do not let anyone else run your business
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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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Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
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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 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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It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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