The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMAlways remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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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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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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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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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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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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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 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.
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Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.
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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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If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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