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 GRAHAMBoth a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
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The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.
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Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities.
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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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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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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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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.
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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
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Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there’s one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.
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