Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Graham (American Investor)

Inspirational Quotations by Benjamin Graham (American Investor)

Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) was a British-born American professional investor. Graham is considered the father of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis. Graham’s followers include Warren Buffett, William J. Ruane, Irving Kahn, Hani M. Anklis, Walter J. Schloss, Amit Ayare and others. Buffett, who credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn after him.

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Unfortunately in this kind of work, where you are trying to determine relationships based upon past behavior, the almost invariable experience is that by the time you have had a long enough period to give you sufficient confidence in your form of measurement, just then new conditions supersede and the measurement is no longer dependable for the future.
—Benjamin Graham

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
—Benjamin Graham

The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be him self.
—Benjamin Graham

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
—Benjamin Graham

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
—Benjamin Graham