Irving Kahn Quotes

#1. Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

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#2. Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

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#3. Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

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#4. I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

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#5. Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

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#6. I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock,

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#7. This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

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#8. The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

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#9. It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

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