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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.

Benjamin Graham

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
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
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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Investing Much Pay Too
Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.
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Firsts May Ownership
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
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Analysis Promise Safety
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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Events Safety Stress
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
… the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.
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Loss Wall Years
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
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Causes Common Investing
I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history’s repeating itself on many different counts. You don’t get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
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Different Simple Wall
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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Gone Investing Sell
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
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
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Crowd Following Intelligent Needs
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
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking

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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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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