To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMDo not let anyone else run your business
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It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
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Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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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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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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Do not let anyone else run your business
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You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
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Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor’s own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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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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In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
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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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