Benjamin Graham Quotes

Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

"What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!"