Common Stocks Quotes by Benjamin Graham

11 Common Stocks quotes by Benjamin Graham

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Benjamin Graham’s practical wisdom shines through even in short bursts. These eleven remarks on common stocks give a clear, no‑frills snapshot of his approach to steady investing.

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If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

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Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do.…

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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…

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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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The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual…

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“Security analysis cannot presume to lay down general rules as to the "proper value" of any given common stock... The prices of…

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“I have little confidence even in the ability of analysts, let alone untrained investors, to select common stocks that will give better…

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The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable…

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It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at…

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“We recommended that the investor divide his holdings between high-grade bonds and leading common stocks; that the proportion held in bonds be…

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A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than…

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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…

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The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor…

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We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to…

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The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

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In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or…

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