Cash Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

  Richard Branson

  Eye, Cash Flow, Blood

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• At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Air, Commercial Banks

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• Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.

  John Boehner

  Thinking, President, Bob

  "US midterms 2010: election day diary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, Men, Average

  "Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?". www.lneilsmith.org.

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• If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Mean

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• Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

  Nathan Deal

  Fall, Glitches, Atm

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Sympathy, Book, Names

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• Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Pride, Keys

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• Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Light, Important

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• The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

  Emmylou Harris

  Music, Soul, World

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• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Three, Bob

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness And Love, Notes, Gaiety

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• It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Destiny, Risk, Payback

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.831, Random House

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• You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

  William James

  Experience, Streams, Practicals

  1907 Pragmatism, lecture 2.

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• The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

  Milton Friedman

  Knowing, Missing, Internet

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• I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

  Richard Branson

  Trying, Way, Contracts

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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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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• Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

  Richard Branson

  Risk, Groups, Essentials

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

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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, Cash Flow, Long

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• Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

  Martin Feldstein

  Home, Improvement, Mortgage

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• Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?

  Prince Philip

  Classic

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• How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Men, Pockets

  Song: Holla At Me, Album: All Eyez on Me

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