Benjamin Graham Quotes

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• Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Risk, Investing

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• 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 intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

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  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Investing, Realist

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

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  Investing, Tomorrow, Believer

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.212, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

  Benjamin Graham

  Games, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

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  People, Investing, Evidence

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.11, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

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  Responsibility, Intelligent, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.207, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

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  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

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  Intelligent, Optimism, Investing

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• The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

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  Essence, Risk, Investing

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• Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

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  Successful, Thinking, Investing

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• A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

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  Investing, Pay, Too Much

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Opposites, Investing

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• Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

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  Investing, Probability, Being Wrong

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.209, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

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  Investing, Emotion, Investment

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• It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Decline, Should

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• Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

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  Sells

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.32, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Panic, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.182, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Pay, Investment

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• Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.

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  Optimistic, People, Experts

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

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  Mistake, Loss, Effort

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.

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  Wise, Attitude, Lying

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• It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

  Benjamin Graham

  Fashion, Character, Thinking

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2009). “Security Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part V - Analysis of The Income Account. The Earnings Factor in Common-Stock Valuation”, p.405, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

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  Loss, Quality, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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