To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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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Do not let anyone else run your business
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Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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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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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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The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
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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.
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No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.
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Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.
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In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.
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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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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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