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The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

Benjamin Graham

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
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Economic Keys Littles
Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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Important Investing Wall
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Investing Principles Safety
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock
Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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Controlling Games Investing
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
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
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.
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Simple Trying Years
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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Investing Investment Thinking
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
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Opportunity Order Technique
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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Investing Making Money Thinking

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

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