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It would be silly to expect every bear market to turn into the Great Depression. It would be equally wrong to expect that a fall from overvalued, to more fairly valued, couldn't badly overshoot on the downside.
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Seth Klarman
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It is only in a bear market that the value investing discipline becomes especially important because value investing, virtually alone among strategies, gives you exposure to the upside with limited downside risk.
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Seth Klarman
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The true investment challenge is to perform well in difficult times.
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Seth Klarman
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The novice soon learns that stocks are likely to maintain an upward or downward trend for long periods of time with minor interruptions of the major trend.
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Philip Carret
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Missing the bottom on the way up won't cost you anything. It's missing the top on the way down that's always expensive.
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Peter Lynch
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You need to know the market's going to go down sometimes. If you're not ready for that, you shouldn't own stocks. And it's good when it happens.
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Peter Lynch
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What you learn from history is the market goes down. It goes down a lot.
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Peter Lynch
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
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Peter Lynch
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The man in the street associates the acquisition of wealth with rising markets; failures, ruin, depression, panics with falling markets.
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Philip Carret
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The malady of commercial crisis is not, in essence, a matter of the purse but of the mind.
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John Stuart Mill
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If you can invest your money under fair conditions, in fact under attractive specific conditions, I think one certainly should do so even if the market should go down further and even if the securities you buy may also go down after you buy them.
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Benjamin Graham
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Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Benjamin Graham
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The Street, unfortunately, is fairly well inured to the bursting of bubbles.
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Benjamin Graham
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The only thing you can be sure of is that there are times when large numbers of stocks are priced too high and other times when they're priced too low.
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Benjamin Graham
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Experience in former markets indicates that just as they are too high in bull markets, they get too low in bear markets.
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Benjamin Graham
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It is usually a much simpler matter to forecast a bull market than to call the turn at its end.
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Philip Carret
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Bull markets and bear markets last long enough so that the average trader is likely to forget by the time the climax is approaching that any sort of movement is possible.
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Philip Carret
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You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready. You won't do well in the markets. If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
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Peter Lynch
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I've been fully invested at the start of all the major declines and I will be fully invested in the next one. I am not a market predictor, that's for darn sure.
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Peter Lynch
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We would rather underperform in a huge bull market than get clobbered in a really bad bear market.
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Seth Klarman
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If you’re going to be in this game for the long pull, which is the way to do it, you better be able to handle a 50% decline without fussing too much about it.
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Charlie Munger
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