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Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

Benjamin Graham

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
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Investing Principles Wall
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
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World
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
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
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Credit Desire Three
Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock’s proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
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Arriving Important Sound
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
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Intelligent Investing Shopping
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
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Brain Character Quality
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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Forget Everything People Wall
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
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Investing Pay Too Much
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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May Profit Wall
Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
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Successful Technique Unique
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
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
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Beginner Effort Trying
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
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Causes Materials Raw Statistics

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