It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMNo 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.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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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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As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
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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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Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
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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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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
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Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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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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In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.
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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
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The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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