"The individual investor should act consistently as an……" — Benjamin Graham
"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase."
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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 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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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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