Top 70 Walter Schloss Quotes

#1. Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

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#2. Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night.

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#3. I like the idea of company-paid dividends.

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#4. The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

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#5. Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.

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#6. Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.

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#7. You never really know a stock until you own it.

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#8. If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

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#9. 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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#10. Price is the most important factor to use in relation to value.

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#11. Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.

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#12. Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.

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#13. You have to have patience in this field.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Buy stocks where the outlook is not good.

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#17. Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

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#18. We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

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

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#20. Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

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

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#22. If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.

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

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

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#25. Be careful of leverage. It can go against you.

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#26. Don't sell on bad news.

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#27. Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.

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#28. I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.

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#29. I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years.

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#30. Book values have some good and some bad features.

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#31. Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.

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#32. My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

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#33. Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?

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#34. We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.

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#35. When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!

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#36. Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

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#37. Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.

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#38. Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.

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#39. We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.

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#40. This is a business. Like any other business.

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#41. If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.

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#42. Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

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#43. Try to establish the value of a company.

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#44. Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

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#45. We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.

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#46. People don't like to buy things that are going down.

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#47. 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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#48. Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.

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#49. If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.

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#50. One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

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#51. Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

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#52. Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

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#53. I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

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#54. Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.

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#55. Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

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#56. I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.

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#57. Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

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#58. Managements, you know, often think of themselves.

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

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#60. Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

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#61. You never get the high and you never get the low.

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#62. When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.

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#63. Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.

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

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#65. Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.

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#66. Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

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#67. Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

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#68. Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

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#69. You have to invest the way that's comfortable for you.

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

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