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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Benjamin Graham

Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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Advantage Investing Jobs
Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.
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Firsts May Ownership
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
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Essence Safety Unnecessary
In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities.
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Choices Impersonal Issues Voting
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World
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
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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Achievement Forever Growth
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Intelligent Investing Realist
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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Investing Looks People
High valuations entail high risks.
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Investing Risk Valuation
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
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Investing Successful Thinking
The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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Growth Intelligent Investing
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
Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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Confusing Investing Mistakes
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
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Investing Pay Speculators

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

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