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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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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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Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.
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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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Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.
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You never really know a stock until you own it.
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Book values have some good and some bad features.
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I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive they try to buy companies.
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Have patience. Stocks don't go up immediately.
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Managements, you know, often think of themselves.
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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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Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.
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You have to invest the way that's comfortable for you.
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more.
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We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.
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Our average holding period is four years.
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I liked the results of the profits in the markets.
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