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If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.


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Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.



The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.



In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.



In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.



Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.



The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.



A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.



An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.



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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.





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If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

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