"A Cow for her milk A Hen for her eggs And a stock, by heck For her dividends." - John Burr Will...
"A Cow for her milk A Hen for her eggs And a stock, by heck For her dividends." - John Burr Williams, 'The Theory of Investment Value'. There are many investors who made a name for themselves in the twentieth century who expounded the value in dividend-based investment. John Burr Williams is not as well known as a Ben Graham but in the early twentieth century he was a founder and developer of fundamental analysis and ideas of 'value'. His poetry was awful, but his investment thinking was cutting edge. In dividend-based investment of numerous kinds, there is nothing new and it ...
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