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Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

Benjamin Graham

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
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Essence Investing Risk
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
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
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
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Challenges Intelligent Safety
The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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Analysis Determine Investing Issues Valuation
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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Cotton Suffering Wheat
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
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Intelligent Successful Technique
Stocks can be dynamite.
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Dynamite Progressive Stock
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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Assailant Chest Prestige Strengthen War
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
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees Investing
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Art Important Skills
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.
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Intelligent Investing Optimism
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
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
Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.
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Confusing Investing Mistakes

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 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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