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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

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
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Hands Honesty Investing
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
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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Common Sense Ideas Thinking
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
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
Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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Important Investing Wall
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Average Good Man Management
Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
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Successful Technique Unique
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
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Brain Character Quality
The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.
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Investing Long Safety
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
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Intelligent Investing Panic
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
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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Expansion Technique World
The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
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Important Mean War

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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