Intelligent Investor Quotes

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

Benjamin Graham

#2. The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

Benjamin Graham

#3. Figure 28: The intelligent investor: strategy, process requirements and attitude

Frederik Vanhaverbeke

#4. Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

Benjamin Graham

#5. The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Benjamin Graham

#6. In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.

Benjamin Graham

#7. The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

Benjamin Graham

#8. The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

Benjamin Graham

#9. An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

Benjamin Graham

#10. At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

Warren Buffett

#11. My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

Ernest Gallo

#12. The softest emotions of the heart are the hardest to control.
- Not First Love

Jennifer Lawrence

#13. So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl?

Sherry Thomas

#14. There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.

Enzo Ferrari

#15. Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

Christopher Buckley

#16. What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"

Naomi Watts

#17. If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

Warren Buffett

#18. God has provided us with a mind and logical thinking, but He also has placed into each of us a spirit. With the help of the human spirit we can perceive the Spirit of God and learn to know our Creator.

Eve Juurik

#19. While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

Seth Klarman