Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMBoth individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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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 people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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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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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities.
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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
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For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.
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Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.
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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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Stocks can be dynamite.
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there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
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