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Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

Benjamin Graham

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
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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Facts Paradoxical Subjects
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
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 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
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit
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.
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Important Mean War
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking
Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.
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Adversity Should Teach
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
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
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
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Commodity Gold Past
Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor’s own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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Affected Investment Passing Temperament Years
By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people’s mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.
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Destiny Discipline Swings
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus
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

Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

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Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

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