Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMBuy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
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There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
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Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.
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The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the “margin of safety” – never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be – can you minimize your odds of error.
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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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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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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 world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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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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Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
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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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