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Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

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
New York
Walter Jerome Schloss
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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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We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.
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Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.
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Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.
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Be careful of leverage. It can go against you.
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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.
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Book values have some good and some bad features.
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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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I liked the results of the profits in the markets.
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Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
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Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.
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One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.
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Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?
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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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Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.
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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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Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.
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Our average holding period is four years.
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Don't sell on bad news.
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