Philip Arthur Fisher - Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)

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Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

Philip Arthur Fisher

Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community...

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If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?

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The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

Philip Arthur Fisher

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

Philip Arthur Fisher

Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.

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