Ben Graham Quotations..

• The only thing that we can be pretty sure of, perhaps, is that we are acting reasonably and intelligently. And if we are wrong, as we are likely to be, at least we have been intelligently wrong and not unintelligently wrong.
  Ben Graham # Action, Intelligent, Mistakes Quotes
• I am sure that back in 1914 the typical person had a much clearer idea of what he meant by investing his money, and what he meant by speculating with his money. He had no exaggerated ideas of what an investment operation should bring him.
  Ben Graham # Idea, Investing, Money Quotes
• In one important respect we have made practically no progress at all, and that is in human nature.
  Ben Graham # Important Quotes
• Regardless of all the apparatus and all the improvements in techniques, people still want to make money very fast. They still want to be on the right side of the market.
  Ben Graham # Stock Market, Improvement, Money Quotes
• It is fortunate for Wall Street as an institution that a small minority of people can trade successfully and that many others think they can.
  Ben Graham # Investing, Wall Street, Success, Thinking Quotes
• Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
  Ben Graham # Stocks, Fear, Greed, Risk Quotes
• The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each other's washing--nowadays to the tune of 30 million shares a day--without true rhyme or reason. But technologically it is remarkably well-organized.
  Ben Graham # Stocks, Investing, Stock Market, Business, Intelligent, Technology Quotes
• Most of the stockbrokers, financial analysts, investment advisers, etc., are above average in intelligence, business honesty and sincerity. But they lack adequate experience with all types of security markets and an overall understanding of common stocks--of what I call "the nature of the beast".
  Ben Graham # Experience, Truth Quotes
• Industry analysis relates to the past and the future. Insofar as it relates to the past, the elements dealt with have already influenced the results of the companies in the industry and the average market price of their shares.
  Ben Graham # Company, Stocks, Research Quotes
• I would like to warn you against is spending a lot of time on over-detailed analyses of the company’s and the industry’s position, including counting the last bathtub that has been or will be produced.
  Ben Graham # Research, Company Quotes
• What is most important and most dangerous, we all want to get more out of Wall Street than we deserve for the work we put in.
  Ben Graham # Important, Wall Street Quotes

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