Benjamin Graham Best Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about Benjamin Graham Best
Benjamin Graham Best Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Benjamin Graham Best quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
Stock 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
