Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection… — 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
We have been trying to point out that this concept of an indefinitely favorable future is dangerous, even if it is true;… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has… — 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
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Without a saving faith in the future, no one would ever invest at all.” — 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
