Results Quotes by Benjamin Graham

11 Results quotes by Benjamin Graham

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When you need a short, grounded perspective on what counts as success in investing, these eleven quotes from Graham offer clear, practical advice. They’re concise enough for a quick read yet still carry his analytical depth.

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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

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The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to…

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To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and…

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The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying…

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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…

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If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role…

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Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good…

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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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All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out…

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Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics…

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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 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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