Benjamin Graham Quotes

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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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• 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.

  Benjamin Graham

  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.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Investing, Realist

  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.

  Benjamin Graham

  People, Investing, Evidence

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.11, 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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• 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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• Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Optimism, 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.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Investing

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

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Essence, Risk, Investing

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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.

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Emotion, Investment

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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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• In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

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  Wise, Men, Phrases

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

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

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  Investing, Decline, Should

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• Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

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  Wall, Forget Everything, People

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Shopping, Investing

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• The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attention, Investing, Pay

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

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• Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

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  Attitude, Years, Important

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

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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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