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“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.” quote by Benjamin Graham — Download Open image

““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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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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There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that…

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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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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone…

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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use…

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The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and…

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We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to…

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

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Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

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In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or…

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