Intelligent Investor 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 be able…
• The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted…
• 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.
• 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 dice heavily…
• Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
• 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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