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Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

Benjamin Graham

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
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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Analysts Answers Attitude
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
An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Business Investing Investors Values
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
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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Investing Past Wall
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
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Causes Common Investing
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
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Commodity Gold Past
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
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
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Emotional Forever Investing
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
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Crowd Following Intelligent Needs
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
It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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Earning Investing Ratios
Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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Controlling Games Investing
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock

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