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The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.

Benjamin Graham

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 ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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Analysis Determine Investing Issues Valuation
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
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
To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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Adequate Information Mean
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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Gone Investing Sell
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
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
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
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
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
Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
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Hands Honesty Investing
High valuations entail high risks.
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Investing Risk Valuation
For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.
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Investing Issue Issues Price Some
The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.
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Character Important Stress
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

The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.

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The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.

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