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Benjamin Graham, Bernard Baruch, Charles Ellis, Charlie Munger, Chuck Akre, Daniel Kahneman, David Abrams, 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, Meir Statman, Myron Scholes, Peter Bernstein, Peter Lynch, Philip Carret, Philip Fisher, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, Seth Klarman, Stanley Druckenmiller, Walter Schloss, Warren Buffett,

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It is easy, of course, to pick out good companies, companies that are better than other companies. But that is not the same thing as picking out good stocks to buy at their current prices.
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Benjamin Graham
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In investing, nothing beats the discovery of an undervalued stock, no matter what the nature of its business or the past trend of its earnings.
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Peter Bernstein
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I make no attempt to forecast the general market -- my efforts are devoted to finding undervalued securities.
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Warren Buffett
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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of a "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.
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Warren Buffett
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. The better sales will be the frosting on the cake.
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Warren Buffett
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The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a liability whereby its periodic aberrations, in turn, formulate your judgments.
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Warren Buffett
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I am willing to trade the pains (forget about the pleasures) of substantial short term variance in exchange for maximization of long term performance. However, I am not willing to incur risk of substantial permanent capital loss in seeking to better long term performance.
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Warren Buffett
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I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand even though it may mean foregoing large and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don’t fully understand, have not practiced successfully and which, possibly, could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.
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Warren Buffett
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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Warren Buffett
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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.
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Warren Buffett
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Suppose you bought a stock cheap when it was a relatively obscure situation, and then a half-dozen Wall Street firms started cheering for the stock at the same time. I'd get concerned and think about selling. I don't like bandwagons. I'd rather do my own thing.
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Philip Carret
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We don't invest for income. If you invest soundly for growth, the income follows.
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Philip Carret
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I have a very simple strategy. I buy good companies at attractive prices. Then I sit on them.
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Philip Carret
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Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.
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Warren Buffett
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The greater the potential reward in a value portfolio, the less risk there is.
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Warren Buffett
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It is extraordinary to me that the idea of buying dollar bills for 40 cents takes immediately with people or doesn't take at all.
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Warren Buffett
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You’re not buying a stock, you’re buying part ownership in a business. You will do well if the business does well. And if you didn't pay a totally silly price.
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Warren Buffett
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Beating the market averages, after paying substantial costs and fees, is an against-the-odds game; yet a few people can do it, particularly those who view it as a game full of craziness with an occasional mispriced something or other.
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Charlie Munger
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I think there’s a tendency in the modern world of people wanting their money to be working hard, and I joke that our money is like a couch potato by comparison.
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Seth Klarman
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In my opinion, the market tells you when to buy things. And when things are really cheap, on a Graham and Dodd valuation basis, you should like them more. And when they’re really expensive, you should like them less.
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Seth Klarman
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Discrepancies -- and hence opportunities -- in securities originate most often when events move faster than quotations.
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Benjamin Graham
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If you think of the stock market as a cauldron of minestrone soup that occasionally somebody sticks a ladle in and stirs up, it takes a while before all the vegetables float back to the level that they were at before.
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Seth Klarman
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I am much more inclined to buy a stock that has been kicked out of an index because then it may have value characteristics -- it has underperformed.
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Seth Klarman
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The question we ask ourselves is, ''What would we be willing to pay to own a security forever?'' Then we determine whether we can buy it at a discount from that figure.
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Seth Klarman
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We try to buy dollars for 50 cents, and to realize the dollar before too much time passes.
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Seth Klarman
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It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don’t have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it’s genetic.
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Seth Klarman
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My experience is that when people want to give something away at a ridiculous price because they have to, not because they want to, that's a good time to buy.
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Seth Klarman
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Value investing is, at its core, the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
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Seth Klarman
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Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid.
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Seth Klarman
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Investors must never mistake an investment that is down in price for one that is bargain-priced; undervaluation is determined only by a security's price compared to its underlying value.
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Seth Klarman
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We consider for each of our investments not only whether a security is undervalued but why it is undervalued. If the reason is that there are uninformed or emotional sellers, we become more comfortable.
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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 main underlying principle of value investing is that you should invest in undervalued securities because they alone offer a margin of safety.
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Seth Klarman
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Value investors thrive not by incurring high risk (as financial theory would suggest), but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks they identify.
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Seth Klarman
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Value to some extent is in the eye of the beholder. It is very hard to pin down what the value of a future set of cash flows from a business, be it cable TV or biotechnology, is going to be.
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Seth Klarman
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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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Just because we think a stock is undervalued doesn't mean we're right. We may be wrong in our judgment.
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Walter Schloss
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The general state of business thus does not forecast the course of stock prices except in the apparently paradoxical fashion that great prosperity affords an advantageous time for selling stocks, extreme business depression an opportunity for purchase.
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Philip Carret
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Don't buy "cheap" stocks just because they're cheap. Buy them because the fundamentals are improving.
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Peter Lynch
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A correction is a wonderful opportunity to buy your favorite companies at a bargain price.
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Peter Lynch
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As soon as you realize you can afford to wait out any correction, the calamity also becomes an opportunity to pick up bargains.
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Peter Lynch
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The first task of the bargain hunter is to narrow the field and separate the solid prospects from the ones that are counting on hopes, prayers, and miracles.
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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 road to success in speculation is the study of values.
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Philip Carret
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See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money.
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John Templeton
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I never in all my life bought a stock because I liked it. I bought it because it was a cheaper bargain than any similar stock I would buy anywhere in the rest of the world.
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John Templeton
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There's no asset so good that it can't be overpriced and become a bad investment, and very few assets are so bad they can't be underpriced and be a good investment.
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Howard Marks
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You have to buy an asset at a price that is attractive and reasonable for its value.
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Howard Marks
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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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The problem is not whether price changes should be disregarded -- because clearly they should not be -- but rather in what way can the investor and the security analyst deal intelligently with the price changes which take place.
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Benjamin Graham
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We want to get more earnings for the price we're paying.
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Joel Greenblatt
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Let us define the speculator as one who seeks to profit from market movements, without primary regard to intrinsic values; the "prudent stock investor" as one who (a) buys only at prices amply supported by underlying value, and (b) who determinedly reduces his stock holdings when the market enters the speculative phase of a sustained advance.
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Benjamin Graham
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The only significance of stock market gyrations to the true investor is that they give him an opportunity to buy good common stocks when they are cheap -- or at least reasonably priced -- and at times offer him an invitation to sell out at temptingly high levels.
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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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The value approach has been founded on the premise that in many -- but by no means in all -- cases a dependable range of valuation can be established for a common stock by analytical techniques; that often this range differs substantially from the current price; and that such differences offer rewarding opportunities for investment operations.
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Benjamin Graham
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I am an exponent of the philosophy that the main objective of common stock investment should be pricing, not timing; and by pricing I mean the endeavor to buy securities at prices which are attractive, letting timing take care of itself.
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Benjamin Graham
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I think the future of equities will be roughly the same as their past; in particular, common stock purchases will prove satisfactory when made at appropriate price levels.
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Benjamin Graham
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All my experience goes to show that most investment advisers take their opinions and measures of stock values from stock prices. In the stock market, value standards do not determine prices; prices determine value standards.
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Benjamin Graham
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Let us define the speculator as one who seeks to profit from market movements, without primary regard to intrinsic value; the prudent stock investor as one who (a) buys only at prices amply supported by underlying value, and (b) who determinedly reduces his stock holdings when the market enters the speculative phase of a sustained advance.
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Benjamin Graham
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We just try to buy cheap stocks. That's really all. We try to buy things that are out of favor - stocks that others don't want.
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Walter Schloss
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Lots of times when you buy a cheap stock for one reason, that reason doesn't pan out but another reason does because it's cheap.
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Walter Schloss
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Price is the essential determinant in every investment equation. At some price, every company is a buy; at some price, every company is a hold; and at a still higher price, every company is a sell. We do not really recognize the concept of a value company.
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Seth Klarman
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It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem.
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Henry Singleton
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The market's very emotional but over time, doing something logical and systematic does work. The market eventually gets it right.
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Joel Greenblatt
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The secret to successful investing is relatively simple: Figure out the value of something and then pay a lot less.
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Joel Greenblatt
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There's no such thing as a good idea or bad idea in the investment world. It's a good idea at a price, it's a bad idea at a price.
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Howard Marks
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There's good assets and bad assets but good prices and bad prices supersede whether the assets are good or bad.
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David Abrams
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We know from experience that eventually the market catches up with value. It realizes it in one way or another.
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Benjamin Graham
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Beating the market averages, after paying substantial costs and fees, is an against-the-odds game; yet a few people can do it, particularly those who view it as a game full of craziness with an occasional mispriced something or other.
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Charlie Munger
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I buy when things are low and no one wants them. I keep them until they go up and people are crazy to get them.
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Hetty Green
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There is no great secret in fortune making. All you have to do is to buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness and then be persistent.
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Hetty Green
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I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy very good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.
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Henry Singleton
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It's absolute cockamamie crazy to sell stocks after they drop. Instead, you should say, "Today there's a first-rate bargain and I'm buying."
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Charles Ellis
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I think that the future of equity investment, when it is made at a reasonable price, is a promising one, and one that deserves the confidence of those interested in the investment field.
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Benjamin Graham
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Sound common stocks, bought at sound prices, are always good investments.
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Benjamin Graham
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