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

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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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Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.
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I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.
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Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.
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Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?
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By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
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Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.
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Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.
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Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.
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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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Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.
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One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.
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Managements, you know, often think of themselves.
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Try to establish the value of a company.
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Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.
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You never really know a stock until you own it.
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Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.
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I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.
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Don't sell on bad news.
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