Cash Flow Quotes - Page 2

• I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Too Much, Investing

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• Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, School, Mean

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

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• If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.

  Seth Klarman

  Might, Pay, Investment

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• It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

  Ray Dalio

  Payment, Interest, Rate

  "RAY DALIO: The US Economy Is Facing A Rare Set Of Circumstances That Will Be Bad For Markets" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. December 12, 2012.

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• More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, President, Tools

  Source: time.com

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• You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Giving, Gold, The End Of The Day

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• Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Mean, Investing

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• Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order.

  Tom Wolf

  Order, House, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Nov 26, 2014

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• While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Philosophy, San Francisco

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Average

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the March quarter. That brings cumulative payments under our capital return program to $66 billion.

  Peter Oppenheimer

  Return, March, Share

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• The freedom I give myself for the business is in deciding to take part in the Paris collections, but also having other retail strategies that are unlike anybody else's. Not necessarily going into malls, doing the business my own way - having different brands to cover different concepts, to be able to have the cash flow to carry on.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Paris, Giving, Able

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Attitude, Keys, Numbers

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• The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.

  Warren Hellman

  Running, Excess, Type

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Long, Doe

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• What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

  James Chanos

  Office, Doe, Debt

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• Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

  Peter Thiel

  Years, Looks, Investing

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.

  Lynn Margulis

  Running, Honesty, Talking

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• A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.

  Hank Williams III

  Son, Night, Years

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• Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.

  Tyra Banks

  Children, Hate, Talking

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• I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased, hopefully by ING. That would provide a cash flow to Amtrak.

  Thomas Carper

  Office Space, Reality, Ideas

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• When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Balance, Size, Determined

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• In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

  Mary Cunningham, Mary Cunningham Agee, Fran Schumer (1984). “Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix”, Simon & Schuster

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• To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow.

  Richard J. Foster

  Creativity, Greatness, Views

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