Intelligent Investor Quotes by Benjamin Graham

11 Intelligent Investor quotes by Benjamin Graham

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Benjamin Graham laid the groundwork for disciplined investing. In these eleven short passages you’ll find his core advice distilled, a solid primer for anyone curious about sound financial habits.

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The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes…

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

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The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

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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 likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

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The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it…

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Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an…

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In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced,…

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We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via…

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The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925…

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“Graham developed his core principles, which are at least as valid today as they were during his lifetime: A stock is not…

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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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