Big problem Quote by David Dreman

“Several researchers have found that companies that spend the most time offering guidance on quarterly earnings deliver significantly lower long-term growth rates than companies…

— 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

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…

— Warren Buffett

The market is often stupid, but you can't focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.

— John C. Bogle

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

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the…

— Peter Lynch

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

— Mike Farrell

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

— Walter Schloss

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

— Boris Johnson

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash…

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

“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

Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.

— Alex Berenson