Try not to lose money. The way to make money in the stock market is not to be afraid of losing it.
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Walter Schloss
Born in 1916 in New York, died in 2012. Walter Schloss never attended college but learned investing under Benjamin Graham and went on to compound at roughly 16% annually for nearly half a century from a spartan office. Buffett named him a 'superinvestor'; he was the last orthodox heir of Graham-style deep-value investing, embodying diversification, patience, and frugality.
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