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The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.

Benjamin Graham

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM

People Wall Years
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
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Cheap Enterprise Enterprises Investing Stock
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
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Analysis Promise Safety
When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn’t know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn’t know what it means.
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Earning Mean Men Power Sure Use
Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
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Intelligent Investing Responsibility
Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
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Evidence Investing People
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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Accomplishment Investing Wall
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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Fall Investing Opportunity
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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Bulls Levels Next
At heart, “uncertainty” and “investing” are synonyms.
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Heart Investing Synonym
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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Common Sense Ideas Thinking
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
In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.
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Events Safety Stress
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

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