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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

Benjamin Graham

If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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Common Ownership Share
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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Investing Looks People
The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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Behavior Investing Opportunity
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
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
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment
Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
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Intelligent Investing Responsibility
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
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Destiny Honey Milk Years
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
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
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking
It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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Earning Investing Ratios
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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Gone Investing Sell
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

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