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Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

Benjamin Graham

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: ‘This too will pass.’
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Men Phrases Wise
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people’s mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.
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Destiny Discipline Swings
The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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Growth Intelligent Investing
To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.
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Body Investment Safety
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
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
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Average Good Man Management
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
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 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
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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Business Intelligent Running
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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Adequate Information Mean
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism

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 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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