No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.
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 question… - Benjamin Graham
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 question…
- Benjamin Graham
If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be … - Benjamin Graham
If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be …
To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this informati… - Benjamin Graham
To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this informati…
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. - Benjamin Graham
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down. - Benjamin Graham
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. - Benjamin Graham
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. - Benjamin Graham
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never del… - Benjamin Graham
There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never del…
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that ma… - Benjamin Graham
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that ma…
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