Grahams Enterprising Investor
Benjamin Graham's term for the investor who accepts the work of independent business analysis in exchange for the chance -- not the guarantee -- of above-average returns. The enterprising category typically requires ten or more hours per week of reading filings, tracking holdings, and monitoring positions, and it spans ten to thirty individual businesses each independently researched. Graham was explicit that the enterprising path can underperform the defensive path even after years of effort, and the choice of category should be made on grounds of temperament and time-budget honesty rather than on aspiration.
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