Investing Quotes - Page 28

• Price is the most important factor to use in relation to value.

  Walter Schloss

  Important, Use, Relation

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• Yes, Warren has done very well.

  Walter Schloss

  Done, Wells, Values

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• Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

  Walter Schloss

  Risk, Groups, Buying

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

  Walter Schloss

  Ideas, Two, Buying

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• This is a business. Like any other business.

  Walter Schloss

  Values

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• I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.

  Walter Schloss

  Office, Today, Thirds

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• Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

  Walter Schloss

  Ideas, Protection, Values

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• One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.

  Walter Schloss

  Loss, Tricks, Values

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• I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.

  Walter Schloss

  Facts, Timing, Very Good

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

  Walter Schloss

  Have Confidence, Values

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• Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.

  Walter Schloss

  Years, Stockbrokers, Five

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• When I buy a stock, I have kind of an idea where I want to sell it.

  Walter Schloss

  Ideas, Want, Kind

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• Our average holding period is four years.

  Walter Schloss

  Average, Years, Four

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

  Walter Schloss

  People, Trying, Aggressive

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

  Walter Schloss

  Decision, Difficult, Sells

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

  Walter Schloss

  Publicity, Very Popular, Values

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• We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.

  Walter Schloss

  Amount, Values

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

  Walter Schloss

  Feet, Feelings, May

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• Managements, you know, often think of themselves.

  Walter Schloss

  Thinking, Management, Knows

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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?

  Walter Schloss

  Plant, Assets, Equipment

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

  Walter Schloss

  Want, Littles, Zips

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

  Walter Schloss

  Thinking, Feelings, Company

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

  Walter Schloss

  Ifs, I Can, Values

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

  Walter Schloss

  Way, Ifs, Values

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

  Walter Schloss

  Pieces, Paper, Remember

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