Benjamin Quotes

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

you can do anything you set your mind to

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

The best doctors give the least medicines

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

Duty cannot exist without faith

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.