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For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.

Benjamin Graham

Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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Advantage Investing Jobs
To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
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Average Sound Wall
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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Arguments Gold Use White
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
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Bears Investing Wreckage
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
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Investing Successful Thinking
Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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Drop Sells Stock Substantial
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Investing Men Selling
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of “an abundance or surplus” arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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Evil Four Lying
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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Discipline Financial Plan Want Way
Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.
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Issues Portfolios Quality
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Cheap Enterprise Enterprises Investing Stock
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing … without rhyme or reason.
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Block Investing Laundry
Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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Evidence Investing People

For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.

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