Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe 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.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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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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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 sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
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Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
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The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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