We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. — Thomas Friedman 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
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
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a… — Anne Robinson 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. — Toshihiko Fukui 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
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
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
It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
