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When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!

Walter Schloss

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Walter Schloss
Age: 95 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2012
Died: February 19
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New York City
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Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.
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Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.
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Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.
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Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.
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Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?
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You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.
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When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.
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We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.
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Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.
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Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.
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I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.
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If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don't get too emotional when things go against you.
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I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.
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We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.
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Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.
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Look at companies selling at new lows.
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When I buy a stock, I have kind of an idea where I want to sell it.
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Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.
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This is a business. Like any other business.
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Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.
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