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Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

Walter Schloss

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Walter Schloss
Age: 95 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2012
Died: February 19
Businessperson
Investor
New York City
New York
Walter Jerome Schloss
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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 agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.
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If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.
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Our average holding period is four years.
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more.
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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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I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.
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By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
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This is a business. Like any other business.
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Be careful of leverage. It can go against you.
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You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.
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Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.
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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'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive they try to buy companies.
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Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.
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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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Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
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One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.
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If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.
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You never get the high and you never get the low.
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