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Benjamin Graham

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Also known as Benjamin Grossbaum

American economist and investor (1894-1976)

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Born
1894
Died
1976
Works
49

Top works

  • Security Analysis
  • The Intelligent Investor
  • Storage and Stability; a Modern Ever-Normal Granary
  • The interpretation of financial statements
  • Testify

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1894
Active to
1976

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335
Total plays
4,942

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Quotes

  • You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.
  • The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
  • Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
  • Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
  • Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
  • It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

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Key facts

Born
Benjamin Grossbaum , ( 1894-05-09 ) May 9, 1894, London, England, UK
Died
September 21, 1976 (1976-09-21) (aged 82), Aix-en-Provence , France
Education
Columbia University ( BA )
Institutions
Columbia University , University of California, Los Angeles
Notable ideas
Security Analysis (1934), The Intelligent Investor (1949), Benjamin Graham formula

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Benjamin Graham (/ɡræm/; né Grossbaum; May 9, 1894 – September 21, 1976) 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, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing the price of a stock from the value of its underlying business.

After graduating from Columbia University at age 20, Graham started his career on Wall Street, eventually founding Graham–Newman Corp., a successful mutual fund. He also taught investing for many years at Columbia Business School, where one of his students was Warren Buffett. Graham later taught at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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