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The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.

Benjamin Graham

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit
In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities.
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Choices Impersonal Issues Voting
The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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Behavior Investing Opportunity
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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Investing Looks People
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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Facts Paradoxical Subjects
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
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Investing Pay Speculators
Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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Confusing Investing Mistakes
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
Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
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Intelligent Investing Responsibility
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment
An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Business Investing Investors Values
High valuations entail high risks.
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Investing Risk Valuation
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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Assailant Chest Prestige Strengthen War
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
The intelligent investor shouldn’t ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.
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Intelligent Investing Should

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