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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

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Investing Men Selling
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
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Intelligent Investing Weight
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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Analysis Determine Investing Issues Valuation
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
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Energy Loss Wall
Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock’s proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
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Arriving Important Sound
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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Bulls Levels Next
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
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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Accomplishment Investing Wall
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
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Decision Investing Simple
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
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
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
When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn’t know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn’t know what it means.
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Earning Mean Men Power Sure Use
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing … without rhyme or reason.
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Block Investing Laundry
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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May Profit Wall

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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