Benjamin Graham Quotes

1894–1976 United States

Benjamin Graham (May 9, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was an influential economist and professional investor. Graham is considered the first proponent of Value Investing.

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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.

Storage and Stability (1937)

Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

It guarantees unfailing purchasing power where it is most needed-among the countless producers of raw commodities.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

Storage and Stability (1937)

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Storage and Stability (1937)

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Storage and Stability (1937)

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Storage and Stability (1937)

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

Storage and Stability (1937)

Do not let anyone else run your business.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

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 Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949)

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949)

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

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.

Storage and Stability (1937)

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

Storage and Stability (1937)

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

Storage and Stability (1937)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Graham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.