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there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.

Benjamin Graham

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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Ignored Investing Taken
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
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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Investing Investment Thinking
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
Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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Conservative Realizing Transformation
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Adoption Book Purpose
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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Experts Optimistic People
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
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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Investing Making Money Thinking
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
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Investing Looks Return
The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
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Gone Hot Today
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
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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Common Ownership Share
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
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Credit Desire Three
Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
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Investing Issues Portfolio Purchase
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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Investing Much Pay Too

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