Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude,… — 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 wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments. — 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
