Arithmetic Quote by Benjamin Graham Download Open image “Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.” — Benjamin Graham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arithmetic Intelligent Investing Optimism
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic, — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“To quote the late John Templeton, “Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time to… — David Skarica Copy Share Image
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach 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
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting,… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image