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  • Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

    In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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 GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - … the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.

    … the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - We 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.

    We 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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

    Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.

    The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

    The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

    Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

    We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

    It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

    Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

    Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

    The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM