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

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  Intelligent, Investing, Realist

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

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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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  Running, Business, Intelligent

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Optimism, 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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• Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

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  Forever, Lasts, Conditions

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2002). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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

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  Intelligent, Opposites, Investing

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• Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

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  Investing, Conservative, Investment

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• Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

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  Gone, Investing, Sells

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

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• Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

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  Wall, Forget Everything, People

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• Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

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  Intelligent, 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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• If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

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  Intelligent, Shopping, Investing

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• Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

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  Winter, Investing, Hats

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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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• 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.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Probability, Being Wrong

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

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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.

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  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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