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Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

Benjamin Graham

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 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
Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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Fall Investing Opportunity
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Cheap Enterprise Enterprises Investing Stock
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
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
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Economic Keys Littles
By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people’s mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.
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Destiny Discipline Swings
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
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
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Bears Investing Wreckage
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
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Bad Company Good Investing Price Stock
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
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
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
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
In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.
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Emotional Long Running

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