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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.

Walter Schloss

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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
Honest
Hardworking
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Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.
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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
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