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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
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New York City
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Walter Jerome Schloss
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Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.
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A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?
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Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.
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By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
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Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.
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I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.
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I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.
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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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Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.
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Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.
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Try to establish the value of a company.
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