Investing Quotes - Page 29

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

  Walter Schloss

  Book, Trying, Use

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

  Walter Schloss

  Doe, Debt, Equity

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

  Walter Schloss

  Moving, Values

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• Don't sell on bad news.

  Walter Schloss

  News, Sells, Values

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

  Walter Schloss

  Judgement, Loner, Values

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• Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

  Walter Schloss

  Thinking, Trying, Weakness

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

  Walter Schloss

  Too Much, Sells, Values

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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.

  Walter Schloss

  Book, Trying, Selling

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

  Walter Schloss

  Yield, Levels, Ratios

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

  Walter Schloss

  Years, Lasts, Helpful

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

  Walter Schloss

  Greed, Connections, Emotion

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• Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night.

  Walter Schloss

  Sleep, Simple, Night

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

  Walter Schloss

  Emotion, Stay True, Conviction

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• If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Growth, Important

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• Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Order, Growth

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• By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Responsibility, Giving

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• Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Games, Growth

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• You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Moving, Growth

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• I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Believe, Choices

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• People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Worry, People

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• Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Fighting

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• There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Giving, Growth

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• I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Believe, Understanding

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• I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Views, People

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• Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Men, Reality

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