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My mission isn’t to make money in bull markets. My mission is to preserve capital.
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Michael Price
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There is a considerable tendency for common stock investors to do the greater part of their buying, both of "good" and "bad" securities, at high levels of the market. They are equally inclined to do the greater part of their selling at low levels of the market, a procedure which is not conducive to successful results.
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Benjamin Graham
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It is a curious fact that although all booms are alike, all are different.
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Edwin Lefevre
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Cash really hurts if you hold it very long in an equity market that is compounding at close to 20% per annum.
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Robert Kirby
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It may be a fair generalization to assert that the top levels of most "normal" bull markets are characterized by a tendency to equate stock risks with bond risks.
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Benjamin Graham
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Happy is the man who has no past! The same seems to be true of corporations in a bull market.
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Edwin Lefevre
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Buying stocks of prosperous concerns may be good business -- but only at a certain price. But if you will make sure you know what you are getting for your money, you will be doing what nobody does in a bull market.
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Edwin Lefevre
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Laws have been passed to outlaw some of the more egregious behavior which contributed to the big bull market of the twenties. Nothing has been done about the seminal lunacy which possesses people who see a chance of becoming rich.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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History shows us, over and over, that bull markets can go well beyond rational valuation levels as long as the outlook for future earnings is positive.
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Peter Bernstein
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If the market's going wild and you want to be in it, you either have to lower your standards to stay in the game or you buy stuff which may not participate because it's not part of the game at that time.
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Walter Schloss
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If you looked at September 1986 to October '87, the market was unchanged. It had a thousand points up and a thousand points down and they only remember the down.
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Peter Lynch
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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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People who exit the stock market to avoid a decline are odds-on favorites to miss the next rally.
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Peter Lynch
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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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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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Whenever you get a wild excess on the upside, the following correction doesn't just go back to normal; it almost always falls way below normal.
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John Templeton
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Once a boom is well started, it cannot be arrested. It can only be collapsed.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Booms start with some tie-in to reality, some reason which justifies the increase in asset values, and then -- and this is the critical feature of speculative mood -- the market loses touch with reality.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Participation in the stock market is not limited to the experienced, the conservative, nor even the intelligent. It is a game at which any number of people may play. And as the market level rises, the quantity of players grows rapidly and their quality diminishes somewhat in proportion.
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Benjamin Graham
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My experience teaches me that by far the largest losses have been sustained by investors through buying securities of inferior quality under favorable general conditions.
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Benjamin Graham
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In the halcyon days of prosperity, the investor is satisfied with increased dividends and a rising market, and cares very little about dry statistics.
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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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A large advance in the stock market is basically a sign for caution and not a reason for confidence.
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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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It takes a great deal of nerve to cling to a short position in a stock in the face of an advancing market even though the stock may clearly be overvalued.
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Philip Carret
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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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Every economic recovery since World War II has been preceded by a stock market rally. And these rallies often start when conditions are grim.
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Peter Lynch
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