We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future. — Nicolas Darvas Copy Share Image
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. — James Rickards Copy Share Image
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building… — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
I believe Indian banks have a strong funding profile with largely deposit-funded balance sheets, a large physical presence to cater to the… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family… — Frederic Morton Copy Share Image
If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies… — Paul Dyson Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everybody is talking about synergies. You've got to take out every cost you possibly can. You have to position yourself as your… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
What outsourcing causes - what it's caused by, rather. I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet. I happen to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
