Criteria Quote by Benjamin Graham

“Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.”

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that…

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Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

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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.

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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone…

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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…

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The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor…

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We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to…

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The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

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In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or…

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