Average Quote by Benjamin Graham

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

— Benjamin Graham

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.

— Barry Ritholtz

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

— Marc Andreessen

People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells…

— Barry Ritholtz

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits…

— Peter Cundill

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt…

— Mark Kirk

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of…

— Dave Eggers

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy…

— Dar Williams

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it;…

— Earl Nightingale

About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail…

— Rick Carlisle

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical…

— Oliver Goldsmith