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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

Benjamin Graham

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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Decision Investing Simple
It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.
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Hundred Loss Taken
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Cheap Enterprise Enterprises Investing Stock
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of “an abundance or surplus” arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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Evil Four Lying
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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Intelligent Successful Technique
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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Investing Past Wall
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
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Adequate Hands Knowledge World
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
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
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
Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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Evidence Investing People
For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.
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Investing Issue Issues Price Some
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
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Engineering Essence Philosophy
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
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Mountain Ordinary Vicissitudes
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

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