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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.

Benjamin Graham

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 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 is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.
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Hundred Loss Taken
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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Investing Making Money 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
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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Investing Investment Thinking
Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock’s proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
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Arriving Important Sound
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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Investing Loss Quality
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Investing Principles Safety
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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Discipline Financial Plan Want Way
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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Investing Much Pay Too
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
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
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
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

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