Benjamin Graham Quotes:
Ocupation: Investor
Life: May 9, 1894 - September 21, 1976
Birthday: May 9
Death: September 21
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.
source: "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 18, 1949.
topic: Attitude, Phrases, Opinion, Superintendents
