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The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

Benjamin Graham

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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Cotton Suffering Wheat
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
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Approach Investing Making Money
The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.
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Age Assets Investing
To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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Adequate Information Mean
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
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 intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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Growth Intelligent Investing
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
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Intelligent Investing Weight
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
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
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
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
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Causes Materials Raw Statistics
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
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.
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The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

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The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

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