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In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

Benjamin Graham

The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.
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Age Assets Investing
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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Clothed Feds Fiber Population
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
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
Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it’s imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
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Hands Honesty Investing
Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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Conservative Realizing Transformation
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
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
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Investing Looks People
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Intelligent Investing Realist
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus
Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.
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Matter Thinking Trying
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 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
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

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