Earning Quote by Warren Buffett Download Open image “Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.” — Warren Buffett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earning Equity Focus Investing Justice Return Share
When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings. — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
The market is often stupid, but you can't focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that… — Susan J. Ellis Copy Share Image
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
