“You are right because your data and reasoning are right.”
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Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security Analysis (1934) with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor (1949). His investment philosophy stressed independent thinking, emotional detachment, and careful security analysis,…
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business · American financial analyst, investor, and professor (1894–1976) · economist · writer · financier · university teacher · investor · also Benjamin Graham, Benjamin Grossbaum, Graham
Born 9 May 1894 · Died 21 September 1976 · Q290560
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2026· 2 entries
“investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.”
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1996· 1 entry
Having previously been saved by Buffett and John J
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1988· 2 entries
“After the Crash: The Opportunities According to Benjamin Graham”
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For Fortune, "Boy, if I had listened only to Ben [and not also to Charlie Munger], would I ever be a lot poorer
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1976· 3 entries
Graham died in Aix-en-Provence, in southern France, at the age of 82
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Died 1976-09-21.
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“You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.”
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1956· 1 entry
When Graham retired from active investing
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1948· 1 entry
(worth $11,413) and who held on to the GEICO distribution would have had $1
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1936· 1 entry
The Graham-Newman fund, together with Jerome Newman
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-05-09.
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