Capital Allocation Quotes & Sayings

Why this book? In today's globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of the past, unnecessarily. — Thomas Jerome Baker

A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or bonds) and the receipt of income on that wealth (such as dividends or interest). The financial system performs dismally at its advertised task, that of efficiently directing society's savings towards their optimal investment pursuits. The system is stupefyingly expensive, gives terrible signals for the allocation of capital, and has surprisingly little to do with real investment. — Doug Henwood

And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression are almost always viewed as more valid and attractive than their feminine counterparts. — Julia Serano

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. — Lily King

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. — Bret Easton Ellis

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. — Leni Riefenstahl

Every question does not deserve an answer. — Publilius Syrus

You've been away a long time. Were you lost?

I was wounded, not lost. — Sally Green

The bottom string is tuned to an open G. — Jules Shear

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it. — Martin Cruz Smith

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks. — Anthony Noto

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. — John Lithgow

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 is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable. — Warren Buffett