Earning Quotes - Page 4

• I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Bullshit, Saws

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• One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Company, Ifs

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• Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

  Walter Schloss

  Trying, Investing, Assets

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• Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.

  Walter Schloss

  Games, Looks, Investing

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• Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Assets, Values

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• The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Hunting, Checks

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• Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Average, Years

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.120, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Earning It, Sweat

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.104, Read Books Ltd

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• Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Ordinary, Doe

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.202, Penguin

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• You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

  Patsy Cline

  Song, Home, Thinking

  "Patsy Cline". Book by Ellis Nassour, 1981.

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• 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

  Essence, Enemy, Age

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• Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, School

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• By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Home, Equal Pay

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Character, Men

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• It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ratios, Investing, Nonsensical

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• The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

  David Hawkins

  Cash, Able, Realizing

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• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Long, Pressure, Energy

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• We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

  "Jerry Seinfeld Gets Brutally Honest About Advertising in This Hilarious Speech at the Clios". www.adweek.com. October 02, 2014.

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• The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

  Andrea Jung

  Business, Women, Home

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• I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?

  Prince Andrew

  Years, Injustice, Taxpayers

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• While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Past, Years

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• Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

  Frank Abagnale

  Years, Important, Credit

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• Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Years, America

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• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  Kamisese Mara

  Confidence, Jobs, Loss

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

  Paul Krugman

  Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

  "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

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