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Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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Is management rational?

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The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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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.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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Look for companies with high profit margins.

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Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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