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People don't like to buy things that are going down.

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
New York
Walter Jerome Schloss
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more.
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I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.
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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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You have to invest the way that's comfortable for you.
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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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We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.
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Managements, you know, often think of themselves.
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I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.
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Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
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When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!
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Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.
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Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.
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Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.
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Price is the most important factor to use in relation to value.
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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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Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
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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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Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.
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