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Quotes from The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham

1894–1976 United States

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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)

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

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

Do not let anyone else run your business.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

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 Intelligent Investor (1973)

Attribution

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