Quotes & Sayings About Annual Reports

Third Wave technology will also change how we measure success in the classroom. What good is an annual standardized test, after all, once teachers and parents can get detailed reports with a wide range of metrics, comparing their students on a regular basis to others in their class or school or state? In this way, big data on individual students will do for education what standardized testing never quite could: bring quantitative precision to a qualitative learning process. — Steve Case

Of 76,000 buildings in Hiroshima 70,000 were damaged or destroyed, 48,000 totally. "It is no exaggeration to say," reports the Japanese study, "that the whole city was ruined instantaneously."2679 Material losses alone equaled the annual incomes of more than 1.1 million people. "In Hiroshima many major facilities - prefectural office, city hall, fire departments, police stations, national railroad stations, post offices, telegram and telephone offices, broadcasting station, and schools - were totally demolished or burned. Streetcars, roads, and electricity, gas, water, and sewage facilities were ruined beyond use. — Richard Rhodes

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. — Warren Buffett

As scientists linked smoking to cancer, the tobacco industry was under particularly pointed attack, which might have heightened Powell's alarmism. As a director at Philip Morris from 1964 until he joined the Supreme Court, Powell was an unabashed defender of tobacco, signing off on a series of annual reports lashing out at critics. The company's 1967 annual report, for instance, declared, "We deplore the lack of objectivity in so important a controversy ... Unfortunately the positive benefits of smoking which are so widely acknowledged are largely ignored by many reports linking cigarettes and health, and little attention is paid to the scientific reports which are favorable to smoking." Powell took umbrage at the refusal by the Federal Communications Commission to grant the tobacco companies "equal time" to respond to their critics on television and argued that the companies' First Amendment rights were being infringed. — Jane Mayer

When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it. — Warren Buffett

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish. — Leonard Mlodinow

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. — Warren Buffett

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery. — Philip M. Parker

He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports. — Shirley Hazzard

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material. — Warren Buffett

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports. — Warren Buffett