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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There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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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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Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
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A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
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It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
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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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Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
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The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
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By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
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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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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.
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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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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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