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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

Benjamin Graham

Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
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
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
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 purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Adoption Book Purpose
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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Controlling Games Investing
There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there’s one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.
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Investing Responsibility Shame
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees 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
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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Clothed Feds Fiber Population
The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.
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Effort Loss Mistakes
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
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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Economist Including Needs Profession
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Investing Principles Safety

Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

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