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  • Benjamin Graham Quote - In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
  • Benjamin Graham Quote - In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

    Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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 GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn’t know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn’t know what it means.

    When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn’t know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn’t know what it means.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

    The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

    It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.

    We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

    Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.

    The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.

    The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

    Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Calculate a stock’s price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham’s formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

    Calculate a stock’s price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham’s formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

    Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Benjamin Graham Quote - If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

    If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

    BENJAMIN GRAHAM