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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Benjamin Graham

The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.
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Analysts Answers Attitude
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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Expansion Technique World
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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Ignored Investing Taken
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World
Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.
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Issues Portfolios Quality
The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
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Gone Hot Today
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
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Believer Investing Tomorrow
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
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Opportunity Order Technique
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
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Analysis Promise Safety
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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Common Sense Ideas Thinking
We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
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Beginner Effort Trying
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
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
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock

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