Research and development Quote by Daniel H. Pink

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…

— Charles Koch

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…

— David Dreman

People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings guidance, but…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward. As it…

— Joel Greenblatt

“In most companies, you have to justify so much of what you do—to prepare for quarterly earnings statements if the company is publicly traded…

— Ed Catmull

“The obsession with quarterly earnings came about because personal compensation was increasingly tied to what happened to the share price. Improving market capitalization became…

— Michael Farmer

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense…

— Gerry Schwartz

“William J. Bernstein and Robert D. Arnott, “Earnings Growth: The Two Percent Dilution,” Financial Analysts Journal 59:5 (September/October, 2003): 47–55.”

— William Bernstein

One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

— Walter Schloss

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

— Bhavish Aggarwal

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

— Natalie Merchant

After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings…

— Austin Ligon