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If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

Benjamin Graham

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
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Believer Investing Tomorrow
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
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Character Fashion Thinking
We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.
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Analysis Investing Issues
The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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Analysis Determine Investing Issues Valuation
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
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Investing Pay Too Much
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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Accomplishment Investing Wall
In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.
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Events Safety Stress
Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.
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Firsts May Ownership
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees Investing
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
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Egypt Seems Seven Simple Thinking Year
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
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Investing Men Selling
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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Gone Investing Sell
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
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Intelligent Investing Shopping

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