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

Benjamin Graham

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

Controlling Games Investing
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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Decision Investing Simple
At heart, “uncertainty” and “investing” are synonyms.
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Heart Investing Synonym
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Investing Principles Safety
Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
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Ignorance Loss Typical
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
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
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Hype People Wall
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.
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Attitude Important Years
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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Assailant Chest Prestige Strengthen War
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
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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Investing Loss Quality
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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Investing Much Pay Too
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
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Character Fashion Thinking
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of “an abundance or surplus” arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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Evil Four Lying
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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Economist Including Needs Profession

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