"Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business……" — Benjamin Graham
"Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors."
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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
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