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The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
— Benjamin Graham
The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come.
— Benjamin Graham
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
— Benjamin Graham
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
— Benjamin Graham
... The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise.
— Benjamin Graham
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
— Benjamin Graham
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
— Benjamin Graham
She felt dirty, ugly and tired. She felt like a marshmallow heading into a house fire armed with chocolate and graham crackers.
— Benjamin R. Smith
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
— Benjamin Graham
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
— Benjamin Graham
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
— Benjamin Graham
We must recognize, however, that intrinsic value is an elusive concept.
— Benjamin Graham
... Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance.
— Benjamin Graham
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
— Benjamin Graham
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
— Benjamin Graham
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
— Benjamin Graham
The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
— Benjamin Graham
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speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D
are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same. — Benjamin Graham
speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D
are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same. — Benjamin Graham
By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.
— Seth Klarman
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
— Benjamin Graham
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
— Benjamin Graham
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
— Benjamin Graham
... the value of the pledged property is vitally dependent on the earning power of the enterprise.
— Benjamin Graham
There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many,
— Benjamin Graham
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
— Benjamin Graham
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
— Benjamin Graham
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
— Benjamin Graham
plant trees that other men will sit under.
— Benjamin Graham
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
— Benjamin Graham
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
— Benjamin Graham
While a trend shown in the past is a fact, a "future trend" is only an assumption.
— Benjamin Graham
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
— Benjamin Graham
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
— Benjamin Graham
The trend is, in fact, a statement of future prospects in the form of an exact prediction.
— Benjamin Graham
Do not let anyone else run your business
— Benjamin Graham