Benjamin Graham Quotes

To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

Nobody gets security from a piece of paper.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

Do every single thing you can to protect yourself, your family, and your country.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as a support. My job was to make them as safe as they could be, so that they could be as explosive and as emotionally engaged as they could be.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

I think security is a big issue for people.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.

Safety is always a paramount concern for us.

I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.