Irving Kahn Quotes

Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.