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Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.

Benjamin Graham

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
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
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Believer Investing Tomorrow
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.
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Demand Thinking Want
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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Bulls Levels Next
Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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Drop Sells Stock Substantial
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
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
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
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Approach Investing Making Money
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
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
Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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Conservative Realizing Transformation
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 intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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Growth Intelligent Investing

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