Earnings Today Quotes & Sayings

Here is an all-too-brief summary of Buffett's approach: He looks for what he calls "franchise" companies with strong consumer brands, easily understandable businesses, robust financial health, and near-monopolies in their markets, like H & R Block, Gillette, and the Washington Post Co. Buffett likes to snap up a stock when a scandal, big loss, or other bad news passes over it like a storm cloud - as when he bought Coca-Cola soon after its disastrous rollout of "New Coke" and the market crash of 1987. He also wants to see managers who set and meet realistic goals; build their businesses from within rather than through acquisition; allocate capital wisely; and do not pay themselves hundred-million-dollar jackpots of stock options. Buffett insists on steady and sustainable growth in earnings, so the company will be worth more in the future than it is today. — Benjamin Graham

You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says 'look here, look here,' the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that's exactly what happened at the earnings conference today. — Ali Sheikh

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority. — Bernard Crick

We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up. — Stephen Pagliuca

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence. — Charles Dickens

The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old. — Bernard Baruch

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago. — Albert Einstein

When you are eager to serve the world, the universe will be eager to serve you. — Debasish Mridha

Hatred is blind, as well as love. — Oscar Wilde

In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion. — Thomas Sowell

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock. — Ben Horowitz

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. — John Maeda

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. — Marc Andreessen

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction. — Peter Lynch

Man is a reasoning Animal. — Seneca The Younger

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings. — Jeremy Grantham

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence. — Wendell Berry

Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it. — Donald Barthelme

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked. (Jace Wayland) — Cassandra Clare

My mom thought having a child was going to be like having a partner, but every child is born the center of its own universe, incapable of understanding the world beyond its own wants and needs, and I was no different. — Trevor Noah