A Quote by Benjamin Graham

Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

Benjamin Graham

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Benjamin Graham
American - Economist
May 8, 1894 - September 21, 1976

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Benjamin Graham

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Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

Menander

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John Paulson

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

John Cleese

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

Mario Batali

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Lynne Reid Banks

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Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

Michael Shermer

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

Charlie Munger

The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.