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.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMDiversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.
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The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
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An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
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you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.
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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Stocks can be dynamite.
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