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Be careful of leverage. It can go against you.

Walter Schloss

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Walter Schloss
Age: 95 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2012
Died: February 19
Businessperson
Investor
New York City
New York
Walter Jerome Schloss
Leverage
Investing
Careful
Values

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Our average holding period is four years.
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If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.
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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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Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.
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Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night.
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Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.
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I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.
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All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.
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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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I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.
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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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Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.
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People don't like to buy things that are going down.
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I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.
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Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.
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I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years.
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One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.
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Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.
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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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