The 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 is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

Benjamin Graham

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

Benjamin Graham

#4. 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

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

Benjamin Graham

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

Frederik Vanhaverbeke

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Ralph Bakshi

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

#13. Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Michael Jordan

#14. 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

#15. It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

Bret Easton Ellis

#16. All soul food is southern food, but not all southern food is soul food.

Cassandra Harrell

#17. Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.

Laurie Helgoe

#18. A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

Jason Flemyng

#19. I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

Erica Brown

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

Benjamin Graham

#21. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Mary Pipher