Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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High valuations entail high risks.
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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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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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In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.
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The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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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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Both 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.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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Do not let anyone else run your business
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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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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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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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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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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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