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Value Investing lesson from Graham's brightest student Warren Buffett.

I listen this story on a business news channel which I want to share with my reader. We as an investor must know what it is to make our investing life simple and successful. Let me start with this interesting story, by the way it is not just a story it also a lesson for us. Dating back to the 1930s Benjamin Graham whom we know as the father of value investing was an enterprising young analyst on wall Street. In the early 1930s, he made an interesting observations during the hay days just before the great depression. He noticed that hot stock pickers while caught up in the speculative frenzy would sometimes drive up the stock price to ridiculous levels in relation to the long term economic realities of the underlying businesses. On the other hand, these same spectaculars would sometimes send stock prices spiraling to insane low that similarly ignored the business’s long term prospects. It was in these insane lows that Graham saw a fantastic opportunity to make money. his reas