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The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.

— Benjamin Graham The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949)

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

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Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

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