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.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMMany progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ.
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Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
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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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In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.
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Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor’s own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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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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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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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 stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing … without rhyme or reason.
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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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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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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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