“Do not let anyone else run your business.”
Benjamin Graham book The Intelligent Investor
Source: The Intelligent Investor (1973) (Fourth Revised Edition), Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286
“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.”
February 27, 1963, page 47.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
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