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Stocks can be dynamite.

Benjamin Graham

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
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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Expansion Technique World
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
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Causes Common Investing
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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Imperfection Men People
The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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Cost Depression Financial Great
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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Gone Investing Sell
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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Investing Past Wall
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
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Egypt Seems Seven Simple Thinking Year
The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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Behavior Investing Opportunity
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Adoption Book Purpose
Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
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Ignorance Loss Typical
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
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
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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Experts Optimistic People
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing … without rhyme or reason.
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Block Investing Laundry
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock

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