Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMThe existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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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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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing … without rhyme or reason.
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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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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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The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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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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