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Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

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Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

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You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

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

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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

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Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

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

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Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

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The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

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A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.

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The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

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Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

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The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

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An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

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Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

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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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You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

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The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

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The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

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Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

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In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

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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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Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

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The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

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Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,

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Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

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The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

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