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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

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Believer Investing Tomorrow
The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.
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Change Intelligent Significant Sound
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
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Brain Character Quality
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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Accomplishment Investing Wall
The true investor… will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.
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Attention Investing Pay
An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Business Investing Investors Values
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
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Challenges Intelligent Safety
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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Forget Everything People Wall
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 thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.
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Simple Trying Years
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
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 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 no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
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Energy Loss Wall
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
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

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