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Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Benjamin Graham

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
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.
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People Wall Years
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
Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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Advantage Investing Jobs
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
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
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Economic Keys Littles
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
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
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Adequate Hands Knowledge World
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
Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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Conservative Investing Investment
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
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.
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Investing Permit Worried
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
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

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

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