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

Benjamin Graham

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
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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Assailant Chest Prestige Strengthen War
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
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Investing Pay Too Much
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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Investing Much Pay Too
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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Ignored Investing Taken
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 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
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
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
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
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Investing Men Selling
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
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
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
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
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Commodity Gold Past
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Believer Investing Tomorrow

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