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Benjamin Graham Inspirational Quotes (108)

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The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.
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Stocks can be dynamite.
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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.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.
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Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline
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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
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Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
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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 market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
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To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
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The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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