"When somebody asserts that a stock has an……" — Benjamin Graham

"When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn't know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn't know what it means."

— Benjamin Graham

45 Quotes by Benjamin Graham

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The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should…
The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must…
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would…
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of…
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the…
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they…
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts… — Warren G. Bennis
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is… — Annie Besant
The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is… — Max Lucado
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control… — John T. Flynn
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself. — Andre Gide
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does… — Karl Pearson
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root… — Elizabeth Blackwell
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God… — John Stott
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through… — Hippocrates
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is… — Bill Moyers
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation… — Unknown Author
The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that… — Pope Gregory I

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