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If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

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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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I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive they try to buy companies.
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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 tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.
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Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
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Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.
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We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.
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When I buy a stock, I have kind of an idea where I want to sell it.
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One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.
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We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.
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Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.
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If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.
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By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
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You have to have confidence in what you're doing.
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Managements, you know, often think of themselves.
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Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
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You have to invest the way that's comfortable for you.
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Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.
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I like the idea of company-paid dividends.
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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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