When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached,… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
