Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.

I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

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

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

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

Try to establish the value of a company.

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