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Benjamin Graham, Bernard Baruch, Charles Ellis, Charlie Munger, Chuck Akre, Daniel Kahneman, David Abrams, David Swensen, Dean LeBaron, Dean Williams, Edward Thorp, Edwin Lefevre, Fred Schwed Jr, Henry Singleton, Hetty Green, Howard Marks, Joel Greenblatt, John Bogle, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, John Templeton, Lou Simpson, Meir Statman, Myron Scholes, Paul Tudor Jones, Peter Bernstein, Peter Lynch, Philip Carret, Philip Fisher, Richard Thaler, Robert Kirby, Robert Shiller, Seth Klarman, Stanley Druckenmiller, T. Rowe Price, Walter Schloss, Warren Buffett,

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Most financial principles and theories have a degree of good sense to them. It may be a large degree, but it never comes close to being absolute.
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People do not care for the idea that any important activity which affects them is as beyond their control as a pair of dancing dice.
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It becomes more and more evident that stock prices are not alone determined by high or low credit, earnings or carloadings. There is another mighty factor which cannot be charted along with the various business indices. It is how high or how low are the hearts of men and women during the given period.
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It is very hard to think against the crowd, especially when the crowd is practically universal and unanimous in thought and emotion.
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