Top 80 Walter Schloss Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Don’t buy on tips or for a quick move.”

— Walter Schloss

52. “One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.”

— Walter Schloss

53. “Sell is tough. It’s the worst, it’s the most difficult thing of all.”

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

56. “Managements, you know, often think of themselves.”

— Walter Schloss

57. “I don’t have a ticker-tape machine in my office.”

— Walter Schloss

58. “This is a business. Like any other business.”

— Walter Schloss

59. “Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.”

— Walter Schloss

60. “You never really know a stock until you own it.”

— Walter Schloss

61. “You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.”

— Walter Schloss

62. “Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.”

— Walter Schloss

63. “All the publicity about value investing – it’s become a very popular thing.”

— Walter Schloss

64. “Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.”

— Walter Schloss

65. “I’m a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.”

— Walter Schloss

66. “Look at companies selling at new lows.”

— Walter Schloss

67. “I tried to follow Ben Graham’s ideas.”

— Walter Schloss

68. “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

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

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

71. “Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.”

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

73. “We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.”

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

75. “I liked the results of the profits in the markets.”

— Walter Schloss

76. “Ben didn’t want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.”

— Walter Schloss

77. “Warren is a very good judge of people and he’s a very good judge of businesses.”

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

79. “You have to have confidence in what you’re doing.”

— Walter Schloss

80. “We don’t put the same amount of money in each stock.”

— Walter Schloss

81. “Try to establish the value of a company.”

— Walter Schloss

82. “My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.”

— Walter Schloss

83. “I was in Graham’s office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.”

— Walter Schloss

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

— Walter Schloss

85. “I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.”

— Walter Schloss

86. “Yes, Warren has done very well.”

— Walter Schloss

87. “By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.”

— Walter Schloss