Earnings Quotes
138 Earnings quotes by 110 unique authors
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People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings guidance, but we…
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
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Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for…
— Charles Koch
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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of…
— Warren Buffett
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits…
— Joseph Addison
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can…
— Alan Greenspan
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Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies
— Marc Andreessen
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If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty…
— Peter Lynch
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We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to…
— Martha Stewart
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The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and…
— Henry Hazlitt
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal…
— Barry Goldwater
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Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to…
— Frank Chodorov
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's…
— Gail Porter
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Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard…
— Thomas Paine
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The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices.…
— David Dreman
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I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios…
— David Dreman
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I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And…
— David Duval
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Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing…
— Gary Becker
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
— Ferdinand Mount
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I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought…
— Peter Cundill
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Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had…
— F B Meyer
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Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate…
— George S. Clason
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If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability…
— Warren Buffett
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