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Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.
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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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Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.
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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
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Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.
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I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.
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Our average holding period is four years.
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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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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
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People don't like to buy things that are going down.
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Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.
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Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.
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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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Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
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I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.
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