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| Preface: What I Learned from My Father's Writings | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits | |
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| Preface | |
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| Clues from the Past | |
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| What "Scuttlebutt" Can Do | |
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| What to Buy: The Fifteen Points to Look for in a Common Stock | |
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| What to Buy: Applying This to Your Own Needs | |
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| When to Buy | |
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| When to Sell: And When Not To | |
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| The Hullabaloo about Dividends | |
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| Five Don'ts for Investors | |
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| Five More Don'ts for Investors | |
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| How I Go about Finding a Growth Stock | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Conservative Investors Sleep Well | |
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| Epigraph | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Dimension of a Conservative Investment | |
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| The Second Dimension | |
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| The Third Dimension | |
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| The Fourth Dimension | |
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| More about the Fourth Dimension | |
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| Still More about the Fourth Dimension | |
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| Developing an Investment Philosophy | |
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| Dedication to Frank E. Block | |
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| Origins of a Philosophy | |
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| The Birth of Interest | |
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| Formative Experiences | |
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| First Lessons in the School of Experience | |
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| Building the Basics | |
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| The Great Bear Market | |
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| A Chance to Do My Thing | |
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| From Disaster, Opportunity Springs | |
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| A Foundation Is Formed | |
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| Learning from Experience | |
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| Food Machinery as an Investment Opportunity | |
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| Zigging and Zagging | |
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| Contrary, but Correct | |
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| Patience and Performance | |
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| To Every Rule, There Are Exceptions ... But Not Many | |
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| An Experiment with Market Timing | |
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| Reaching for Price, Foregoing Opportunity | |
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| The Philosophy Matures | |
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| E Pluribus Unum | |
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| History versus Opportunity | |
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| Lessons from the Vintage Years | |
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| Do Few Things Well | |
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| Stay or Sell in Anticipation of Possible Market Downturns? | |
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| In and Out May Be Out of the Money | |
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| The Long Shadow of Dividends | |
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| Is the Market Efficient? | |
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| The Fallacy of the Efficient Market | |
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| The Raychem Corporation | |
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| Raychem, Dashed Expectations, and the Crash | |
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| Raychem and the Efficient Market | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Factors in Evaluating Promising Firms | |
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| Functional Factors | |
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| People Factors | |
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| Business Characteristics | |
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| Index | |