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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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Common Sense Ideas Thinking
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
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Character Fashion Thinking
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
there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
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Attention People 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
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Art Important Skills
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
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Hype People Wall
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
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
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
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Analysis Promise Safety
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
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
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
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Investing Successful Thinking

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