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I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive they try to buy companies.

Walter Schloss

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Walter Schloss
Age: 95 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2012
Died: February 19
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New York City
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Walter Jerome Schloss
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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
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Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.
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Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.
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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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Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.
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Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
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Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.
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We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.
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Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.
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Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.
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This is a business. Like any other business.
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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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We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.
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My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.
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