Famous Figures
Historical and fictional figures mapped to the sixteen values.
Benjamin Franklin
His systematic wealth-building through frugality and compound investment, his establishment of mutual insurance societies, and his thirteen-virtue daily tracking system reflect a Security orientation applied to both financial and personal stability.
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His political philosophy, in which individuals trade freedom for the protection of a sovereign authority, is a systematic argument that Security is the foundational social need from which all other goods follow.
Explore Security →Warren Buffett's teacher Benjamin Graham
Graham's margin-of-safety principle, the insistence that no investment be made without structural protection against loss, formalised the Security orientation into an investment philosophy that influenced generations of practitioners.
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