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You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.

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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
New York
Walter Jerome Schloss
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One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.
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Price is the most important factor to use in relation to value.
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Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.
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I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.
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If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.
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Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.
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One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.
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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
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We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.
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Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.
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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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Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.
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Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
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Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.
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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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You have to have patience in this field.
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All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.
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I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.
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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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I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.
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