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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

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
An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Business Investing Investors Values
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
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
Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.
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Controlling Games Investing
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
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Forget Everything People Wall
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
Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
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Investing Issues Portfolio Purchase
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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Hope Money Time
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 only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.
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Enemy Greed Money Worst
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
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
Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.
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Fall Investing Opportunity

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