Iivi Earnings Quotes

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company. ~ Brian Epstein

All dishonest earnings are the blood of the innocent. Honest earnings are like sweet milk and make the mind pious. ~ Sawan Singh

informative to investors than GAAP earnings, even in settings that previously generated inconclusive results. Although investors exhibit a preference for non-GAAP earnings as a summary measure of firm performance, ~ Anonymous

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

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks. ~ David Dreman

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

Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings. ~ Alex Berenson

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

The point is that market returns are determined by both investment factors - the fundamentals of the initial dividend yield on stocks plus the rate at which their earnings grow - and by speculative factors - the change in the price that investors will pay for each $1 of corporate earnings. ~ John C. Bogle

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

What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models. ~ Louis Navellier

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 for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings. ~ Charles Koch

My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3. ~ Joel Greenblatt

A truly sustainable relationship between earnings and operating cash flow requires that the two measures grow at comparable rates over the long term. When their rates of growth depart, an understanding of the causes can provide insight into how that discrepancy might be resolved. Such insight will provide guidance on the direction of future earnings and cash flow. ~ Charles W. Mulford

Financial markets strive to be forward-looking, but not when it comes to underfollowed small cap stocks in obscure industries. Such stocks remain under the radar of most investors until they report huge acceleration in earnings growth. When a company that used to grow at 5 to 10% suddenly reports a 300% increase in earnings and a 100% increase in sales, it will grab the attention of many investors. ~ Ivaylo Ivanov

I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more earnings. EVA has ideas about cost of capital that make no sense. Of course, if a company generates high returns on capital and can maintain this over time, it will do well. But the mental system as a whole does not work. ~ Charlie Munger

The term bellwether refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) leading his flock of sheep. While out of sight, the sound of the bell is a directive on the whereabouts of the flock. When earning season begins, the bellwether stock is that of the largest (typically industrial) companies who report their earnings. Analysts look to these reports as an indication of how subsequent reports will come in under or over expectations. ~ Coreen T. Sol

I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others. ~ Leonard Read

A brother with small earnings may ask,'Should I also give? My earning are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet.' My reply is, 'Have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them. ~ George Muller

If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes. ~ Charles Bowden

A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings. ~ Aswath Damodaran

looking at: For example: Improve any of those variables, and you increase your earnings. ~ Pablo Vici

The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we need to worry about earnings. What gave us a really strong move in stock prices from late May until about two weeks ago was this heightened optimism that maybe interest rates are at that high. That gave you a relief rally. Now reality is setting in - if we've seen the worst on interest rates then we've seen the best on earnings. ~ Douglas Cliggott

Women still average much less in earnings over a lifetime than men do and have to pay back the same college debt. ~ Gloria Steinem

After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance. ~ Austin Ligon

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings. ~ Walter Schloss

One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings. ~ Walter Schloss

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high ~ John Paulson

Logarithmic-scale graphs are of great value in analyzing stocks because they can clearly show acceleration or deceleration in the percentage rate of quarterly earnings increases. One inch anywhere on the price or earnings scale represents the same percentage change. This is not true of arithmetically scaled charts. On arithmetically scaled charts, a 100% price move from $10 to $20 shows the same space change as a 50% increase from $20 to $30. But a log-scale graph shows a 100% increase as twice as large as the 50% increase. Weekly charts in Daily Graphs Online are properly logarithmic. ~ William O'Neil

Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly. ~ Walter Schloss

He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it. ~ Dean Koontz

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. ~ Edward Dahlberg

Yet he did possess one of the vital requirements to increase his earnings. Within him was a strong desire to earn more, ~ George S. Clason

US common stock has yielded a higher return than bonds. However, price earnings ratios are much higher than they were for much of the 20th century, so it ~ Anonymous

Being able to think and invest very long term and not worry about current earnings or Wall Street analysts can be a major competitive advantage in certain businesses. Acquire ~ Daniel Pecaut

Get one Manager Commitment as a result of the other Manager Commitment and you have a powerful equation for Earnings: E=MC2. ~ Stan Slap

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. ~ William Inge

The simultaneous rise of both the working poor and non-working rich offers further evidence that earnings no longer correlate with effort. ~ Robert B. Reich

For many women, by the time they realize how beautiful they were, it is too late. ~ Robert Black

After years in the Chinese workforce, I had developed an emotional attachment to money. My earnings were my hard work and long hours; my savings were comforts deferred. ~ Hyeonseo Lee

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending. ~ Amity Shlaes

Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings. ~ Ben Feldman

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

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects. ~ Ben Bernanke

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. ~ Francis Parkman

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick. ~ Phebe Novakovic

No money, no cradle. Earnings pay rent on their mother's grave. If payment is not made, her body will be dug up and thrown in a common trench. ~ Ruta Sepetys

The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real "thought partners" with senior management as they consider the longer-term goals beyond quarterly earnings. ~ Pearl Zhu

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize. ~ Barry Ritholtz

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. ~ Thomas Sowell

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential. ~ Nina Easton

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

Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future. ~ Lawrence Summers

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors. ~ Grace Napolitano

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. ~ Ferdinand Mount

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate. ~ Bill Bailey

The most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears. ~ Malcolm Forbes

There's a tacit understanding among clubs that a good player shouldn't miss out on the big break of his career or a chance at exponentially improved earnings. ~ Tim Howard

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period. ~ Peter Cundill

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns. ~ Barack Obama

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. ~ John Tyler

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. ~ Grace Napolitano

After a year of transformation Foster's Group sits at the doorstep of a period of sustained strong earnings growth. ~ Trevor O'Hoy

There is more to life than living to earn money. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance. ~ Anne M. Mulcahy

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions? ~ Robert B. Reich

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death. ~ Sander Levin

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

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. ~ Lucy Stone

People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap. ~ Barry Ritholtz

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality. ~ Amah Lambert

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver. ~ Roger Altman

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could. ~ Jon Oringer

I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast. ~ Anthea Turner

We must learn to separate need from greed ... We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it. ~ Carol Loomis

Unpleasant odor wafting from the subprime mortgage industry that Eisman had detected. These companies disclosed their ever-growing earnings, but not much else. One of the many items they failed to disclose was the delinquency rate of the home loans they were making. ~ Michael Lewis

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade. ~ Neal Patterson

We really believe in the earnings. We're very proud that often we do well in the down market. But you know, there are some markets where they just lose liquidity, like 2001, 2008. ~ Louis Navellier

The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise. ~ Peter Mallouk

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy]. ~ Anonymous

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. ~ Martha Reeves

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating. ~ Hugh S. Johnson

Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to attend the school with lower prestige. Estimated sacrifice in lifetime earnings from attending the less prestigious school: none. ~ Chip Heath

The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ. ~ John L. Lewis

Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations. ~ John C. Bogle

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard. ~ Neville Chamberlain

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

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family. ~ Lindsay Fox

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

Set aside some money you can afford to lose before you begin trading. The money you set aside for trading should be about six to twelve months of your current salary or your current earnings. ~ Ashu Dutt

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game. ~ Charlie Munger

Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. ~ Arne Duncan

The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance. ~ Max Weber

If you don't feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset's future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn't necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake. ~ Warren Buffett

Generally, variations in earnings aren't nearly as impactful on glamour growth stocks as are changes in image and, well, sexiness. I often think of glamour stocks as though they are attractive women dressing to the nines. ~ Kenneth Fisher

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less. ~ Michael Hintze

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability. ~ Thomas Perez