Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMWall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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.
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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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Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
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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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Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.
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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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Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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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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The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
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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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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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