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Intelligent Quotes by Benjamin Graham
- The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes…
- If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
- Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
- 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.
- As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
- The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
- Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
- The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The…
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