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To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

Benjamin Graham

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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Important Investing Wall
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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Economist Including Needs Profession
Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
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Demand Thinking Want
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
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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Imperfection Men People
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
The most striking thing about Graham’s discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word “age”.
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Age Assets Investing
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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Achievement Forever Growth
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 qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.
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Character Important Stress
The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular – but when something goes wrong.
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Growth Intelligent Investing
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
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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Common Sense Ideas Thinking
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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Discipline Financial Plan Want Way
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
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Energy Loss Wall
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

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