Confusing Quote by Benjamin Graham Download Open image “Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.” — Benjamin Graham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confusing Failure Investing Investment Mistake Speculation
Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent… — Fred Schwed Jr Copy Share Image
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified. — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation. — John Virgo Copy Share Image
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right. — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments… — Morton Shulman 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
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A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple,… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered.… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on. — John Cena Copy Share Image
Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's… — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all. — Art Carney Copy Share Image
But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed,… — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
“I seem to be torn between 'I wish we'd met earlier' and 'I wish we'd never met'.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
