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Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

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Walter Schloss
Age: 95 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2012
Died: February 19
Businessperson
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New York City
New York
Walter Jerome Schloss
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Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.
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Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?
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We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.
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Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
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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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Our average holding period is four years.
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Have patience. Stocks don't go up immediately.
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Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.
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I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.
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Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.
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I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.
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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!
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People don't like to buy things that are going down.
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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
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Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.
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I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.
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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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