Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
Benjamin GrahamThe chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
Benjamin GrahamIn other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.
Benjamin Graham