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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.

Benjamin Graham

When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn’t know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn’t know what it means.
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Earning Mean Men Power Sure Use
I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history’s repeating itself on many different counts. You don’t get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
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Different Simple Wall
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
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Investing Successful Thinking
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
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
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 idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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Common Sense Ideas Thinking
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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Forget Everything People Wall
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
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking
Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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Advantage Investing Jobs
Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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Fall Investing Opportunity
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
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Investing Men Selling
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees Investing
The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.
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Analysts Answers Attitude

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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