Benjamin Graham Quotes
-
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
-
The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
-
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
-
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
-
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
-
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
-
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
-
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
-
The investor would not be far wrong if this motto read more simply: 'Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop'.
-
It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.
-
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
-
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
-
Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
-
The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
-
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.
-
Do not let anyone else run your business.
-
The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
-
You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.
-
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
-
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
-
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
-
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
-
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
-
The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right-or at least valuable- answers.