Benjamin Graham Quotes

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

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

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

I'm primarily just an investor.

Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

Thanks, Mr. President. Nobody has complimented the stock exchange for a long while.

The best way to become wealthy is through trade

The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

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

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

Naturally, liquidity is a big factor in any market that seems to be a lot of money in the world, and there's a lot of discretionary money.

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.

The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.