From Drew Dickson at Albert Bridge Capital:
Ben Graham is famously attributed for stating that the market was a voting machine in the short term but a weighing machine in the long term. By that I believe he may have meant that psychology and emotion can sometimes cause Mr Market to overreact or underreact to fundamental (or other) information, thus affecting a share price but that eventually the fundamentals win out...
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