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

Benjamin Graham

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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Experts Optimistic People
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
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Investing Looks Return
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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Common Ownership Share
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
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
In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.
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Ducks Intelligent Investing
At heart, “uncertainty” and “investing” are synonyms.
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Heart Investing Synonym
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
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
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Emotional Forever Investing
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
there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
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Attention People Wall
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
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
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
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
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

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