Frasi di Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham è stato un economista e imprenditore statunitense.

Graham è considerato il primo economista ad aver sviluppato la teoria del value investing, un approccio agli investimenti che ha iniziato a insegnare alla Columbia Business School nel 1928 e in seguito raffinata con David Dodd nelle varie edizioni del libro Security Analysis . Tra i seguaci di Graham vi furono Warren Buffett, Irving Kahn, Walter J. Schloss e altri. Buffett, che riconosce a Graham di avergli dato le basi per un modello di investimento razionale, lo ha descritto come la seconda persona più influente della sua vita, dopo suo padre. Nel 1949 Graham pubblica The Intelligent Investor, da molti considerato il libro di riferimento per chi applica le teorie del value investing. Warren Buffett lo definì il miglior libro sugli investimenti mai scritto.

✵ 8. Maggio 1894 – 21. Settembre 1976   •   Altri nomi बेंजामिन ग्राहम, 班傑明·葛拉漢
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“Le azioni possono essere dinamite.”

The Intelligent Investor

“Cosa possedeva l'azionista individuale che nel marzo 1938 deteneva 10, 100 o 1.000 azioni di Great Atltantic & Pacific? Aveva una piccola frazione dell'intera azienda, proprio come la famiglia Hartford ne aveva una grande? Oppure soltanto un certificato azionario che gli dava diritto a ricevere un dividendo se e quando fosse stato dichiarato, e a ricevere il prezzo quotato qualora avesse deciso di vendere? Un altro modo di formulare questa domanda essenziale è: l'investitore che ha acquistato l'azione A. & P. a 80, sta davvero perdendo dei soldi quando il prezzo crolla a 36? È diventato veramente più povero di prima? La risposta corretta a questa domanda è la chiave per risolvere il più ampio problema di come l'investitore debba rapportarsi rispetto alle fluttuazioni del mercato. Per come la vediamo noi, l'investitore-azionista occupa una posizione intermedia, o di compromesso, tra il vero possesso di un'azienda e il mero possesso di un certificato azionario. Senza dubbio manca di importanti poteri di controllo inerenti al possesso individuale o di gruppo di un'azienda. Ma in questo caso è nella stessa posizione di un socio di minoranza di un'azienda privata, quando questi non si trova nel gruppo di controllo. Ma possiede anche un enorme vantaggio rispetto al socio di minoranza, nel fatto che può vendere le proprie azioni in ogni momento, al prezzo quotato dal mercato.”

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“It guarantees unfailing purchasing power where it is most needed-among the countless producers of raw commodities.”

Origine: World Commodities and World Currencies (1944), Chapter X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 114
Contesto: We have introduced the monetary factor not by necessity but by choice. Its advantages are obvious. Self-financed commodity units are not only interest free, but free also from dependence upon credit conditions. They are a step-desirable, it seems to us-in the direction of a goods economy as distinct from a money economy; but this step is taken without violence by merely identifying basic goods with money. It guarantees unfailing purchasing power where it is most needed-among the countless producers of raw commodities.

“The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.”

Part I, Chapter III, The Problem of Conserving Surplus, p. 43 (italics as per text)
Storage and Stability (1937)

“[Shorter variant:] In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

Quoted and attributed to Graham in Warren Buffett's 1993 letter to investors. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1993.html
The statement is not found in any of Graham's publications or lecture transcripts, and when asked, Buffett could not provide a reference. https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77840
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“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

Benjamin Graham libro The Intelligent Investor

Origine: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 31
Contesto: Why could the typical investor expect any better success in trying to buy at low levels and sell at high levels than in trying to forecast what the market is going to do? Because if he does the former he acts only after the market has moved down into buying levels or up into selling levels. His role is not that of a prophet but of a businessman seizing clearly evident investment opportunities. He is not trying to be smarter than his fellow investors but simply trying to be less irrational than the mass of speculators who insist on buying after the market advances and selling after it goes down. If the market persists in behaving foolishly, all he seems to need is ordinary common sense in order to exploit its foolishness.

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Benjamin Graham libro The Intelligent Investor

Origine: The Intelligent Investor

“It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.”

Origine: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 34

“The investor would not be far wrong if this motto read more simply: "Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop."”

Origine: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 43

“Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.”

Origine: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter III, The Investor and His Advisers, p. 48

“The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.”

Part II, Chapter VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Units, p. 97
Storage and Stability (1937)

“Do not let anyone else run your business.”

Benjamin Graham libro The Intelligent Investor

Origine: The Intelligent Investor (1973) (Fourth Revised Edition), Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286

“It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.”

Origine: World Commodities and World Currencies (1944), Chapter X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109

“The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.”

Origine: World Commodities and World Currencies (1944), Chapter III, The Paradox of the Stockpile, p. 23

“Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.”

Part I, Chapter II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p. 26
Storage and Stability (1937)

“Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.”

Origine: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 21

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