The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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- Benjamin Graham
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- The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 43
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