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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

Benjamin Graham

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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May Profit Wall
Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
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Investing Issues Portfolio Purchase
Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
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Demand Thinking Want
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 Technique Unique
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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Drop Sells Stock Substantial
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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Ignored Investing Taken
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
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Emotional Forever Investing
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
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Ownership Share Trouble Value
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
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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Investing Much Pay Too
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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Defeat Growth Teach
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
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Investing Pay Speculators
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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Forget Everything People Wall

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