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Western Electric LOUDSPEAKER Distributed by GraybaR ELECTRIC COMPANY Through authorized dealers everywhere In the universal pursuit of purchasing power wherewith to support life and to make it worth living, the person with capital may adopt one or more of three generally recognized methods. He may gamble, he may speculate, he may invest. In some art, science, or system of philosophy it may be true that as a man thinketh, so is he. In the planting and harvesting of capital, however, it is the act, not the thought, which determines what kind of man a man is. Many a wild speculator thinks of himself as a conservative investor. Not a few careful investors actually fear they are speculating, even gambling. For these it may be helpful to enumerate certain acts or methods which satisfactorily distinguish gamblers, speculators, and investors from each other. The gambler creates his risk. When B says to C, 'I'll bet you a dollar it rains to-morrow,' and C replies, 'You're on,' a risk is created; in fact, two risks. B and C are now under a contingent liability which need never have existed. Day after to-morrow, for no valuable consideration one is going to put his hand into the other's pocket and take out a dollar. One's gain will be the other's loss. Gambling is never described as sound. It has no economic justification. Speculation differs from gambling in that it involves, not the addition of new risks to an already hazardous enough life, but the transfer of existing risks. When A buys General Electric stock from D, he transfers to D the risk and profit of owning cash. In turn he assumes the risk and profit attendant upon the ownership of General Electric. No risk has been created and there is a quid pro quo. Both A and D 84 may profit. Investment differs from gambling in exactly the same way. Investment and speculation are both economically justifiable risk-bearing activities. But what distinguishes these two? The medium used is no criterion. Speculation, investing, even gambling can be done with Liberty bonds. One person buying Wright Aero may be speculating, while another who buys the same stock may be investing. Ample intelligence, the same facts, and the same desire may be the common motive for both. If X, however, puts all his capital into Wright Aero, and Y only one fiftieth of his, everyone will agree that X is speculating and that Y may be investing. Here are illustrated two factors which distinguish investment from speculation: (1) the required degree of safety as affecting the whole fund, not the individual security; and (2) the method by which that degree of safety is obtained. Speculation may be methodical or unmethodical, sound or unsound. Investment can only be methodical and sound. Otherwise it is speculation. 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