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The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.

Benjamin Graham

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus
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
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.
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People Wall Years
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
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Intelligent Investing Panic
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
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Bears Investing Wreckage
We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.
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Analysis Investing Issues
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
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Bad Company Good Investing Price Stock
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.
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Attitude Important Years
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
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.
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Investing Permit Worried
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: ‘This too will pass.’
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Men Phrases Wise
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
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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Hundred Loss Taken
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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Ignored Investing Taken

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