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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

Walter Schloss

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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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Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.
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Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.
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You never get the high and you never get the low.
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If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.
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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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Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.
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I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.
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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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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
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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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I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.
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My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.
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Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
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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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Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.
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You have to have confidence in what you're doing.
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You have to invest the way that's comfortable for you.
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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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Try to establish the value of a company.
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