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Hi,
Benjamin Graham is the father of value investing – and Warren Buffett’s mentor.
He graduated 2nd in his class from the University of Columbia at the age of 20. He was offered instructing jobs in English, philosophy, and mathematics immediately after graduating.
Graham declined the offers and built one of the most successful and famous investing careers of all time.
Graham was both a successful investor and an excellent teacher of investing ideas.
One of his more important quotes is below.
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine,
but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”
– Benjamin Graham
Graham’s above quote explains the sharp contrast between perception and reality in one eloquent sentence.
In the short run, perception matters.
Stock prices are guided by perception on a daily, monthly, and even yearly time frame.
What "the crowd" thinks and feels about a publicly traded business matters more than how the business is performing in the real world.
But in the long run, performance matters.
Over periods of multiple years what drives stock prices is the underlying performance of the business (on a per share basis).
If a company’s earnings-per-share rise from $1.00 to $4.00 in 10 years, it’s likely the share price will have gone up somewhere in the neighborhood of 4x as well… If the stock was purchased at a reasonable valuation multiple to begin with.
Investors who think of "the stock market" as a place to buy into real businesses have a distinct advantage over those who do not have a concrete example of what the stock market is.
If you treat the market like a casino, your odds of success go down.
When you invest in businesses with long histories of growing dividends you are investing in businesses that are really making money, and really rewarding shareholders with that money.
If these businesses continue to grow their intrinsic value per share while rewarding shareholders with rising dividends, they should be held, not sold.
“When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.”
– Warren Buffett
The daily gyrations of stock prices are almost mesmerizing. They are also next to pointless for the long-term investor.
Focus on the per-share value growth of the underlying business coupled with dividend growth to compound your wealth over time.
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