"In the old legend the wise men finally……" — Benjamin Graham
"In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'"
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45 Quotes by Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham has 45 quotes on this site.
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The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.
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The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should…
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The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must…
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If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would…
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Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of…
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In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
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As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the…
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Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they…
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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
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More Affair Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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