Loss Quotes by Benjamin Graham

10 Loss quotes by Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham’s straightforward style shines through these ten brief reflections on loss, giving you a pragmatic, no‑nonsense viewpoint that can help ground your thoughts when you’re facing setbacks.

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It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after…

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It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end…

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Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a…

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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…

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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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Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market…

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Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only…

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... the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that…

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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times…

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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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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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