Walter Schloss Quotes - Page 3

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• Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.

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  Investing, Tough, Worst

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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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  Thinking, Trying, Investing

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• I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.

  Walter Schloss

  Simple, Analysis, Use

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• Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

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  Greed, Judgement, Investing

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• Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.

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  Moving, Investing, Values

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• I like the idea of company-paid dividends.

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  Ideas, Investing, Company

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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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  Ideas, Two, Investing

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• You have to have confidence in what you're doing.

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  Investing, Have Confidence, Values

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• I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.

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  People, Looks, Investing

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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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  People, Trying, Investing

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• Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

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  Expectations, Risk, Investing

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• By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.

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  Investing, Done, Settings

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• I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.

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  Analysis, Investing, Thirds

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• Managements, you know, often think of themselves.

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  Thinking, Investing, Management

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• My first job at Graham-Newman was to prepare the annual report for that 10th year.

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  Jobs, Years, Firsts

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• Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

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  Thinking, Trying, Weakness

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• My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

  Walter Schloss

  Jobs, Investing, Undervalued

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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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  Book, Trying, Investing

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• Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

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  Book, Trying, Use

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• I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

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  Office, Tape, Machines

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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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  Office, Investing, Today

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• Our average holding period is four years.

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  Average, Years, Investing

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• You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.

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  People, Investing, Company

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• Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

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  Ideas, Investing, Protection

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• All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.

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  Investing, Publicity, Very Popular

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