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Do not let anyone else run your business

Benjamin Graham

The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
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
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies’ performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.
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Character Giving Years
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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Hope Money Time
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
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
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
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Average Good Man Management
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Art Important Skills
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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May Profit Wall
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
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
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
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Hype People Wall
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment

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