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.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMIt must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
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The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
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Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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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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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.
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Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
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The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
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The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.
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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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Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock’s proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
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An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
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Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
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The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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