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    Investors who conquer stock-phobia have an edge over those too focused on their rearview mirror By Jason Zweig 2025: Oct. 4, 2008 12:01 am ET During the Great…

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    2000: Im always amused when people describe their investments as conservative speculations or else claim that they are prudently speculating. Usually that means they hope theyre investing but theyre worried that theyre gambling. The phrase were seeing one another serves the same function for couples who cant decide if theyre serious.

    –Peter Lynch, One up on Wall Street (New York: Penguin, 1990), p. 60.
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Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor,” the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.”

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