Benjamin Graham

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— Benjamin Graham

Stocks can be dynamite.

— Benjamin Graham

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

— Benjamin Graham

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

— Benjamin Graham

High valuations entail high risks.

— Benjamin Graham

Do not let anyone else run your business

— Benjamin Graham

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

— Benjamin Graham

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

— Benjamin Graham

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

— Benjamin Graham

Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

— Benjamin Graham

“You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.”

— Benjamin Graham

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

— Benjamin Graham

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

— Benjamin Graham

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

— Benjamin Graham

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or…

— Benjamin Graham

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions…

— Benjamin Graham

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will…

— Benjamin Graham

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound…

— Benjamin Graham

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Benjamin Graham

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put…

— Benjamin Graham

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

— Benjamin Graham

In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact…

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Benjamin Graham

The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further…

— Benjamin Graham

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest…

— Benjamin Graham

“We recommended that the investor divide his holdings between high-grade bonds and leading common stocks; that the proportion held in bonds be…

— Benjamin Graham

“A strong-minded approach to investment, firmly based on the margin-of-safety principle, can yield handsome rewards. But a decision to try for these…

— Benjamin Graham

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one…

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Benjamin Graham

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

— Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

— Benjamin Graham

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

— Benjamin Graham

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

— Benjamin Graham

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

— Benjamin Graham

Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

— Benjamin Graham

“knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

— Benjamin Graham

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

— Benjamin Graham

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

— Benjamin Graham

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

— Benjamin Graham