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Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

Benjamin Graham

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 intelligent investor shouldn’t ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.
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Intelligent Investing Should
The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
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Behavior Investing Opportunity
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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Cotton Suffering Wheat
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
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Intelligent Investing Panic
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
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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Investing Past Wall
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
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
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
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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Forget Everything People Wall
Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.
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Investing Issues Movement
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Average Good Man Management
THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
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Abuse Agreement Credit

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