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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Benjamin Graham

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 most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.
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Age Assets Investing
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Art Important Skills
In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities.
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Choices Impersonal Issues Voting
Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor’s own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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Affected Investment Passing Temperament Years
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
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Bad Company Good Investing Price Stock
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
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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Hope Money Time
Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.
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Countless Emotion Party Rather
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 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
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.
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Attitude Important Years
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
Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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Important Investing Wall
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock

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