Quotes About Price

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

Love is the true price of love.

a crucial element of English success was their commanders' ability to learn on the fly, make adjustments, and attempt new tactics. The Spanish paid a heavy price for their lack of equal flexibility.

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

Since the profits that companies can earn are finite, the price that investors should be willing to pay for stocks must also be finite.

According to tradition the sound reason for increasing the percentage in common stocks would be the appearance of the "bargain price" levels created in a protracted bear market. Conversely, sound procedure would call for reducing the common-stock component below 50% when in the judgment of the investor the market level has become dangerously high.

It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity—provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and that he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment

Principle for the securities analyst: Nearly every issue might conceivably be cheap in one price range and dear in another.

What have we learned? The market scoffs at Graham's principles in the short run, but they are always revalidated in the end. If you buy a stock purely because its price has been going up—instead of asking whether the underlying company's value is increasing—then sooner or later you will be extremely sorry. That's not a likelihood. It is a certainty.

It is our view that stock-market timing cannot be done, with general success, unless the time to buy is related to an attractive price level, as measured by analytical standards. Similarly

The future value of every investment is a function of its present price. The higher the price you pay, the lower your return will be.

In his endeavor to select the most promising stocks either for the near term or the longer future, the investor faces obstacles of two kinds—the first stemming from human fallibility and the second from the nature of his competition. He may be wrong in his estimate of the future; or even if he is right, the current market price may already fully reflect what he is anticipating.

The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

If you buy a stock purely because its price has been going up—instead of asking whether the underlying company's value is increasing—then sooner or later you will be extremely sorry. That's not a likelihood. It is a certainty.

particularly as to whether they have a clear concept of the differences between investment and speculation and between market price and underlying value.

Investment must always consider the price as well as the quality of the security.

A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial- say, more than a third from cost- or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. p25

knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Growth stocks are worth buying when their prices are reasonable, but when their price/earnings ratios go much above 25 or 30 the odds get ugly:

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. The future value of every investment is a function of its present price.

Unlike most people, many of the best professional investors first get interested in a company when its share price goes down, not up.

No intelligent investor, no matter how starved for yield, would ever buy a stock for its dividend income alone; the company and its businesses must be solid, and its stock price must be reasonable.