Benjamin Graham: “If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume”
Investment strategy : He sought companies with strong balance sheets, with little debt, above-average profit margins, and ample cash flow .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warren Buffett :“Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down”
Investment strategy : He is a value investor that buys stocks at a low price and holds them for a indefinite period. He only invests in business that he understands and this made him stay away from dot com companies that went bust in the year 2000.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Lynch: “Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth grade math, you can do it”
Investment strategy : Take your time to identify exceptional companies.Just like Warren Buffett, Lynch always stuck to companies that he can understand. He didn’t believe in following the herd and famously acknowledge that it’s futile to predict the economy and interest rates.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Philip Fisher : “(When a) stock rises to, say, 50 or 60 or 70, per cent, the urge to sell and take a profit now that the stock is ‘high’ becomes irresistible to many people. Giving in to this urge can be very costly”
Investment strategy : In his book ‘Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits’, Fisher said that the best time to sell a stock was ‘almost never’.He believed that investors should invest in few great stocks rather than holding a portfolio of many. And, stay with them without bothering the new highs the stock makes. One of his followers is Warren Buffett.
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