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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

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
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Adoption Book Purpose
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
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Intelligent Investing Shopping
High valuations entail high risks.
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Investing Risk Valuation
Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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Advantage Investing Jobs
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
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Business Intelligent Running
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
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Hat Investing Winter
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.
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Hands Honesty Investing
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees Investing
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
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
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
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
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

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