Balance Quote by Peter Cundill Download Open image “We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.” — Peter Cundill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balance Balance sheets Business Looks Margins Safety Sheets Worry
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great… — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
Keep a strong balance sheet, don't get over-leveraged, and try to protect the security of your employees. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
“If your position or job is on the liability side of the balance sheet, you can be looked at as a risk rather than… — Chris Lutz Copy Share Image
For most businesses, America is the most important asset on their balance sheet. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“An unprofitable company must not be doing work useful to society. Perhaps its products are lousy or maybe is badly run. In any case,… — Toshihiko Yamashita Copy Share Image
In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
I suspect that my thinking is an eclectic mix, not pure net-net because I couldn’t do it anyway so you have to have a… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“We don't need to strive towards balance, we rather need to work on the obstacles that are preventing the natural flow of balance.” — A.A. Alebraheem Copy Share Image
I think that kind of balance comes with the process of growing together as a band, the Little Dragon. We love to write, we… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it.… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I never understood how much running changes your life. I'm now obsessed. When not trying to beat my personal best, I'm talking to other… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image