Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.
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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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If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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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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I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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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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A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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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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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.
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A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
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If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.
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