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

Benjamin Graham

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
Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.
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Conservative Investing Investment
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
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
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
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Engineering Essence Philosophy
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
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Destiny Honey Milk Years
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Adoption Book Purpose
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Average Good Man Management
Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.
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Enthusiasm Long May Prejudice Time
It’s nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
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Earning Investing Ratios
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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Expansion Technique World
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
At heart, “uncertainty” and “investing” are synonyms.
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Heart Investing Synonym
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
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking
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

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