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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

Benjamin Graham

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
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.
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Analysis Investing Issues
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
Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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Drop Sells Stock Substantial
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
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
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating.
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Investing Speculating Thinking
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
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Ownership Share Trouble Value
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
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Ignorance Loss Typical
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
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
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
If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.
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People Wall Years
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

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