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1. "The more stocks you own, the more time you have to spend tracking them."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   A focused portfolio of well-understood stocks beats a scattered portfolio of names you barely know.

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2. "The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   The greatest risk is not market volatility — it is panicking out of your positions during temporary declines.

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3. "Professionals are often precluded from investing in small companies."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   Small-cap stocks are overlooked by institutions, creating pricing inefficiencies that individual investors can exploit.

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4. "You don't have to be right on every stock."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   You only need a few big winners in your lifetime to build significant wealth — not every pick needs to work.

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5. "If you work in an industry, you have an edge in that industry."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   Your professional expertise in an industry gives you an informational edge that no Wall Street analyst can replicate.

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6. "Some of the best stock tips are found in shopping malls and at your own workplace."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   Pay attention to what succeeds in your everyday life — popular products and busy stores signal strong businesses.

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7. "The key organ in investing is the stomach, not the brain. Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   Emotional fortitude matters more than intelligence in investing.

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8. "A decline of 10% is a correction, a decline of 25% is a bear market, and a decline of 50% happens roughly once every generation. None of these should cause panic."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   Market declines are a normal part of investing.

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9. "If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes."

   出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

   Macroeconomic forecasting is largely useless for stock picking.

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10. "Know what you own, and know why you own it. If you can't explain it to a ten-year-old in two minutes or less, you shouldn't own it."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Understanding your investments is the best risk management.

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11. "In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten. You need just a few big winners to make a whole career."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A few big winners more than compensate for many small losses.

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12. "I place stocks in six general categories: slow growers, stalwarts, fast growers, cyclicals, turnarounds, and asset plays. Each requires a different strategy."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Classify stocks to apply the right strategy to each.

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13. "When the stock market is at its lowest, nobody talks about stocks at cocktail parties. When taxi drivers and dentists start giving stock tips, it's time to sell."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Public enthusiasm about stocks signals market tops.

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14. "The amateur investor has advantages over the professional. You can find great investments right in your own backyard — the mall, the workplace, the products you use every day."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Personal experience provides unique investment insight.

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15. "Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. You have to study the company before you invest, not after."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Research before investing, not after.

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16. "The perfect stock is attached to a company doing something dull or ridiculous. A company that does boring things is almost always a good buy."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Boring businesses often make the best investments.

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17. "The P/E ratio of any company that's fairly priced will equal its growth rate. If the P/E is lower than the growth rate, you may have found yourself a bargain."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Use the PEG ratio to find fairly valued growth stocks.

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18. "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Trying to avoid downturns costs more than enduring them.

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19. "People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses and setbacks. Losses and setbacks are key to eventually finding the big winners. Stock prices follow earnings."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Long-term stock prices track business earnings, not sentiment.

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20. "Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing. If the company is doing well, the stock will eventually follow."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Focus on business quality, not stock price.

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21. "The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. The amateur who devotes a small amount of study to companies in an industry has an edge over most professionals."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Individual investors have structural advantages over professionals.

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22. "If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings — assuming the company in question has earnings. The direction of earnings is the single most important factor in stock prices."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Build your investment system around earnings analysis.

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23. "The amateur investor has numerous advantages over the professional investor."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Individual investors beat professionals because they have no benchmark pressure, no committee approvals, and no career risk.

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24. "If you invest in stocks for the long term, you should look forward to down markets."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Train yourself to welcome market drops as opportunities rather than threats to your wealth.

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25. "If you spend more than 14 minutes a year on economics, you've wasted 12 minutes."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Macroeconomic forecasts are useless noise — successful investing depends on company-level analysis.

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26. "In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Accept that mistakes are inevitable and cut losses quickly instead of hoping for a recovery that may never come.

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27. "Never invest in any company before you've done the homework on the company's earnings prospects, financial condition, competitive position, and expansion plans."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Do your own research thoroughly before buying — no shortcut replaces understanding the actual business.

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28. "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections than has been lost in the corrections themselves."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Sitting in cash waiting for a crash costs more than the crash itself would have cost you.

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29. "Market declines are great opportunities to buy stocks at bargain prices."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Market crashes are clearance sales — the same great companies at dramatically lower prices.

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30. "In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Expect to be wrong on 40% of your stock picks — what matters is making more on winners than you lose on losers.

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31. "Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy, or the stock market."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Stop trying to predict the market and focus your energy on finding great individual companies.

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32. "Sell if you find something better."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Holding a mediocre stock just because you own it is a waste of time and capital.

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33. "Diworsification—when a company diversifies into unrelated areas—is a bad sign."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A company that diversifies into unrelated businesses is usually destroying value and signaling management hubris.

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34. "Heavy insider selling is a warning sign."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    When executives dump large amounts of their own stock, they may know something you do not.

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35. "Sell cyclicals when inventories are building and the economy is booming."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Sell cyclicals when business conditions peak — rising inventories and full capacity signal the top.

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36. "With stalwarts, you make most of your money in the first two years."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Take profits on stalwarts after a 30-50% gain because they rarely deliver more than that in a single move.

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37. "When the P/E ratio gets too high relative to growth prospects, it's time to sell."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A stock priced for perfection has no margin for error — any disappointment triggers a sharp decline.

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38. "When earnings growth slows, it's time to reconsider."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Decelerating earnings growth is the earliest warning that a growth stock is maturing into something else.

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39. "Sell when the story changes."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    The only valid reason to sell is when the fundamental story you bought into no longer applies.

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40. "Keep up with your stocks the same way you keep up with your health."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Review your holdings periodically to verify the original investment thesis still holds true.

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41. "Bad news about a stock can be good news for the investor."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Overblown negative headlines create temporary price drops that let you buy great companies at a discount.

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42. "The best company to own is one that has room to expand."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Companies with large untapped markets can sustain high growth rates far longer than skeptics expect.

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43. "A single successful product can turn around a company's fortunes."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A single blockbuster product can transform a struggling company into a market leader overnight.

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44. "Buy cyclicals when things look terrible."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    The best time to buy cyclicals is at peak pessimism when the industry appears to be dying.

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45. "Share buybacks are the simplest way for companies to reward shareholders."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Companies that consistently buy back shares at reasonable prices are compounding shareholder value quietly.

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46. "When insiders are buying, it's a good sign."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    When company executives spend their own money buying shares, they are voting with their wallets.

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47. "The lower the percentage of institutional ownership, the better."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Low institutional ownership means a stock still has room for a wall of buying when funds eventually discover it.

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48. "A PEG ratio of less than one is generally a good sign."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A PEG ratio below one means you are paying less for growth than the market typically demands.

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49. "Look for companies with accelerating earnings."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Accelerating earnings quarter over quarter is the strongest indicator that a company is hitting its stride.

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50. "The perfect company has a boring name, does something dull, and is not followed by analysts."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    The best investments are often in boring, unglamorous companies that Wall Street analysts refuse to cover.

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51. "Big companies have small moves, small companies have big moves."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Small companies offer bigger potential returns because a small revenue base can double more easily than a large one.

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52. "Own as many stocks as there are situations in which you have an edge."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    The right number of stocks to own depends on how many genuine informational edges you actually have.

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53. "Avoid hot stocks in hot industries."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    The most dangerous stocks are popular ones in trendy industries where everyone is already invested.

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54. "When companies buy back their own shares, it's usually a good sign."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Share buybacks shrink the share count, boost earnings per share, and signal management confidence.

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55. "Insiders might sell shares for any number of reasons, but they buy for only one reason: they think the stock price will rise."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Insider buying is the most reliable bullish signal because people risk their own money only when they expect gains.

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56. "Cash flow is the lifeblood of a company."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Free cash flow reveals whether a company actually generates real money or just reports accounting profits.

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57. "Look for a strong balance sheet with low debt."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A clean balance sheet with low debt gives a company the resilience to survive bad times and capitalize on good ones.

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58. "In the end, earnings are what count."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Revenue and hype are distractions — only sustainable earnings growth drives long-term stock prices.

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59. "Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Stick to businesses simple enough that anyone could understand how they make money.

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60. "If you can't explain why you own a stock in two minutes or less, you shouldn't own it."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    If you cannot articulate your investment thesis quickly and clearly, you are gambling, not investing.

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61. "Invest in what you know."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Your personal knowledge and daily observations give you a real edge over professional fund managers.

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62. "In my experience, the best stocks to buy are the ones you already know."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Your best investment ideas come from your own daily experience as a consumer and professional.

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63. "The P/E ratio of any company that's fairly priced will equal its growth rate."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    A stock with a P/E ratio equal to its earnings growth rate is fairly valued — below that is a bargain.

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64. "Companies don't stay in one category forever."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Reclassify your stocks regularly because a fast grower today can become a slow grower tomorrow.

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65. "An asset play is any company that's sitting on something valuable that the market has overlooked."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Hidden assets on balance sheets — real estate, patents, cash — create buying opportunities that Wall Street ignores.

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66. "Turnarounds are companies that have been battered and depressed, and have the potential to recover."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Turnarounds can deliver explosive returns, but only if the company has enough cash to survive the recovery.

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67. "Cyclicals are companies whose sales and profits rise and fall in regular fashion."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Timing is everything with cyclicals — buy when the business looks terrible, sell when it looks great.

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68. "Fast growers are small, aggressive new enterprises that grow at 20-25% a year."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Fast growers offer the biggest gains but require constant monitoring to catch the moment growth slows.

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69. "Stalwarts are large companies that grow faster than slow growers but aren't going to double overnight."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Stalwarts are your portfolio insurance — they protect you in downturns and deliver steady 10-12% annual returns.

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70. "Slow growers are large and aging companies that are expected to grow slightly faster than GDP."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Slow growers pay dividends because they have no better use for their cash — own them for income, not growth.

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71. "I've developed my own system for categorizing stocks into six categories."

    出处: *One Up On Wall Street* (1989)

    Classify every stock into one of six categories before buying so you know what to expect from it.

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