Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMAn intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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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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The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.
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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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In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies’ performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.
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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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Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.
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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
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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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Stocks can be dynamite.
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