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“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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Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

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The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

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