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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Benjamin Graham

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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Decision Investing Simple
Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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Conservative Investing Investment
Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
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Ignorance Loss Typical
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Believer Investing Tomorrow
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
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
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Being Investing Probability Wrong
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Intelligent Investing Realist
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
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
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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Facts Paradoxical Subjects
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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Fall Investing Opportunity
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees Investing
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should

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