The intelligent investor shouldn’t ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMIf fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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Calculate a stock’s price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham’s formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
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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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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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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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Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.
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By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people’s mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.
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Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
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Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
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Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.
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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.
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While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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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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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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