Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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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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The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.
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you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of “an abundance or surplus” arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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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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Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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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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By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
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If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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