Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets. — Steve Eisman 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
For most businesses, America is the most important asset on their balance sheet. — Hillary Clinton 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
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
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
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
The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will… — Warren Buffett 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
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
...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
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 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
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
