Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone…

— Benjamin Graham

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

— Benjamin Graham

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

— Benjamin Graham

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

— Benjamin Graham

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that…

— Benjamin Graham

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we…

— Jeff Merkley

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

— Conrad Black

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman