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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

Benjamin Graham

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
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Emotional Forever Investing
Do not let anyone else run your business
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Anyone Buisness Else Running
Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
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Intelligent Investing Responsibility
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
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Economic Keys Littles
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
The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
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Important Mean War
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
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Analysis Promise Safety
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
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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Common Ownership Share
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment
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
Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Intelligent Investing
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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Facts Paradoxical Subjects
In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.
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Ducks Intelligent Investing
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
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Brain Character Quality
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Faces Government Surplus

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