Aim Quote by Benjamin Graham

“In good years, defensive investors have to be content with the knowledge that their gains, although perhaps less than maximal, were achieved with risk…

— Howard Marks

“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 emoluments rather…

— Benjamin Graham

“In trading you have to be defensive and aggressive at the same time. If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make…

— Ray Dalio

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.

— Walter Schloss

It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour…

— John Maynard Keynes

The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities…

— Benjamin Graham

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

— Seth Klarman

“In trading you have to be defensive and aggressive at the same time.”

— Ray Dalio

When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is…

— Whitney Tilson

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

— Warren Buffett

I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses…

— Marilynne Robinson

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

— Anonymous