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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.

Benjamin Graham

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
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Investing Successful Thinking
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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Investing Making Money Thinking
Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.
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Issues Portfolios Quality
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
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
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Growth Investing Profit
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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Investing Loss Quality
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
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
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
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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Arguments Gold Use White
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Art Important Skills
Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
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Successful Technique Unique
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

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