The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to… — 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
Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good… — 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
Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable… — 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
