Investing Quote by Michael Farmer

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

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can…

— Tom Perez

“Being able to think and invest very long term and not worry about current earnings or Wall Street analysts can be a major competitive…

— Daniel Pecaut

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their…

— J. Irwin Miller

“A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.”

— Aswath Damodaran

“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

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

— Peter Diamandis

A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well,…

— B. C. Forbes

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

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

“We find that firms with award-winning CEOs subsequently underperform, in terms both of stock and of operating performance. At the same time, CEO compensation…

— Daniel Kahneman

The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company…

— Wayne Huizenga