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Saturday, 21 January 2012

"By far, the best book on investing ever written." - Warren Buffett

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The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Preface to the Fourth Edition, by Warren E. Buffett I read the first edition of this b...

How to Diagnose What’s Wrong With Your Business

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January 18, 2012,  9:25 AM By  JAY GOLTZ Over the years, I have met a lot of entrepreneurs who have been frustrated by low profits, lack ...

Margin of Safety Concept in The Business Venture of Making Profits from Security Purchases and Sales

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To Sum Up Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. It is amazing to see how many capable businessmen try to operate i...

Margin of Safety Concept in Conventional and Unconventional Investments

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  Extension of the Concept of Investment To complete our discussion of the margin-of-safety principle we must now make a further distincti...

Margin of Safety Concept in Speculation and Investment

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A Criterion of Investment versus Speculation Since there is no single definition of investment in general acceptance, authorities have the...

Margin of Safety Concept in Diversification

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Theory of Diversification There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification....
Friday, 20 January 2012

Margin of Safety Concept in Undervalued or Bargain Securities

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The margin-of-safety idea becomes much more evident when we apply it to the field of undervalued or bargain securities.  We have here, by d...

Margin of Safety Concept in Growth Stocks

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The philosophy of investment in  growth stocks  parallels in part and in part contravenes the margin-of-safety principle. The growth-stock ...

Margin of Safety in Good-Quality and Low-Quality Stocks

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However, the  risk of paying too high a price for  good-quality stocks —while a real one—is  not  the chief hazard  confronting the average ...