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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

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I think confidence will come back.

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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

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There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

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Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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