Benjamin Graham Quotes

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Ask the shareholders of Enron how they would feel about privatizing Social Security.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

Markets love volatility.

RUNE is another one I'm really looking forward to.

Employees did not only have their money in their 401k’s. They had their lives in those 401k’s ... today most people have most of their money in public stocks ... and the government regulates very little of this.

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

I don't know anything about a stock!

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

Investing is pure.