Customer Quotes by Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

Buy stocks where the outlook is not good.

— Walter Schloss

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

Look at companies selling at new lows.

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when…

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long…

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

You never really know a stock until you own it.

— Walter Schloss

Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.

— Walter Schloss

If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss