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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

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
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Goods Modern World
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
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
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
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
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
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
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Average Good Man Management
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 money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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Cost Depression Financial Great
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
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Destiny Honey Milk Years
An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Business Investing Investors Values
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock
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

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