Benjamin Graham Quotes

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

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

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

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.

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".

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

The hardest trader I've ever run against.

We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices

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

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.

Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.

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.