For most businesses, America is the most important asset on their balance sheet. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets. — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and… — Benjamin Graham 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
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is… — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a… — John Howard Copy Share Image
I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled… — George Soros 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
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
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction,… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets. — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable. — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet. — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. — Diane Garnick Copy Share Image
I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the… — Donald Trump, Jr 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
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
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
