Our list of Benjamin Graham Quotes
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The Benjamin Graham's quote says that those unaware of the past will repeat past actions.
Awareness of the past is crucial in enabling us to understand what mistakes or good deeds we have committed.
The attitude we must have toward the past is a constructive one. We should not dwell too much on memories but gain experience from them and build a different future or present, better than the past.
If we forget how we handled a past situation, we may perform it again in the same way, without any refinement of the solution or ourselves.
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.
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An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.
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The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are right.
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As the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.
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You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.
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