It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThough business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
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The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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The true investor… will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.
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In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: ‘This too will pass.’
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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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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.
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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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I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history’s repeating itself on many different counts. You don’t get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
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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.
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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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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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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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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.
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Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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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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