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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

Benjamin Graham

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
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
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Adequate Hands Knowledge World
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
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
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Investing Pay Speculators
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
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Intelligent Optimism Swings
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
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Community Investing Memories
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
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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Common Ownership Share
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
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Intelligent Investing Shopping
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Investing Principles Safety
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Intelligent Investing Realist
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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Defeat Growth Teach
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
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Being Investing Probability Wrong
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

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

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