Bears Quote by Benjamin Graham

The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but…

— Seth Klarman

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor…

— Paul Singer

Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had…

— Benjamin Graham

A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third…

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Benjamin Graham

“The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are…

— Benjamin Graham

In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck…

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Benjamin Graham

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

— Benjamin Graham

The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of…

— Benjamin Graham

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from…

— Benjamin Graham