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Be a polite and patient investor - it will pay off

It has always irked me that books with titles like How to make a million dollars in the stockmarket and Ten things you must know about the stockmarket probably sell more copies than my book. It’s my own fault, Stock Market Secrets by Marcus Padley is hardly exciting by comparison and, let’s be honest, if they were really “secrets”, well, they’re not anymore.

But the get-rich-quick books do sell, presumably because there are a lot of financially anxious, unrealistic, desperate and frantic people buying books as a solution to their money problems. But if you think about it, in a

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