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Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

— Benjamin Graham Storage and Stability (1937)

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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.

Storage and Stability (1937)

Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

It guarantees unfailing purchasing power where it is most needed-among the countless producers of raw commodities.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

The Intelligent Investor (1973)

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