605 Quotes About Investment




  • Author Benjamin Graham
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    The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

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  • Author Benjamin Graham
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    ... The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise.

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  • Author Benjamin Graham
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    The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.

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  • Author John Maynard Keynes
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    If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a farm, there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

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