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Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
Benjamin Graham
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Benjamin Graham
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 8
Died: 1976
Died: September 21
Economist
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The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.
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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
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Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
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The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.
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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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Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
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Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.
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Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
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Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.
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The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
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Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.
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The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
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The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
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Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
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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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you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
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