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Benjamin Graham Inspirational Quotes (108)

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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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The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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The correct attitude of the security analyst toward the stock market might well be that of a man toward his wife. He shouldn't pay too much attention to what the lady says, but he can't afford to ignore it entirely. That is pretty much the position that most of us find ourselves vis-à-vis the stock market.
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... the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.
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There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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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.
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An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
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The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.
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Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
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You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.
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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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Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.
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Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
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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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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Speculators often prosper through ignorance it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
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