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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Benjamin Graham

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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Defeat Growth Teach
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
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Investing Men Selling
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
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Assets Fees Investing
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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Earning Investing Should
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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Experts Optimistic People
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.
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Gone Investing Sell
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
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Approach Investing Making Money
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
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
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Intelligent Investing Realist
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
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Investing Pay Speculators
For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.
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Investing Issue Issues Price Some
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Emotion Investing Investment
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the “margin of safety” – never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be – can you minimize your odds of error.
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Errors Odds Safety
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
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Investing Risk Successful
Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
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Drop Sells Stock Substantial
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
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Art Important Skills

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