Earnings Quotes

138 Earnings quotes by 110 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies — Marc Andreessen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. — Ferdinand Mount
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
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
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
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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