Benjamin Graham Quotes

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

Invest in good, solid companies in good sectors.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to take a longer-term perspective. They tend to trade less. They tend to shift in and out of stocks or mutual funds less often.

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.

What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.