Equity Quotes - Page 7

• People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

  David Rubenstein

  Thinking, People, Used

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• It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.

  David Rubenstein

  Mean, Benefits, Helping

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• The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Roles, Making Money, Private Equity

  "Two campaigns, two definitions of Romney's role at Bain" by Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cbsnews.com. June 2, 2012.

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• In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Technology, Mind, Location

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• Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

  Alan Lomax

  Justice, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

  Alexander Lebedev

  Russia, Modern, Investors

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• If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

  Bret Stephens

  Benefits, Super Bowl, Hindsight

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Social, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.201, Modern Library

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• We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Years, Two

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• Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

  Laurie Garrett

  Vaccines, Battle, Pandemics

  "'Contagion' is part reality, part fantasy, totally possible" by Laurie Garrett, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Player

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• Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

  Douglas Leone

  Selfish, Selfish Acts

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• The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who put a proper valuation upon a satisfied customer as an asset running into the thousands of dollars, and who love a job thoroughly well done and get a kick out of doing it.

  Alvan Macauley

  Love, Running, Jobs

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• A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.

  Stephen B. Shepard

  Community, Innovation, Promise

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• If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

  Peter Lynch

  Homework, Mutual Fund, Stomach

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Twenties, Banking

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• In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and their portfolio should be such that they are willing to ride out the bad as well as the good times.

  Harry Markowitz

  Risk, Portfolios, Good Times

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• Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.

  Steve Rubel

  Drunk, Together, Degrees

  "Is the bottom about to fall out of Web 2.0?" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2007.

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• Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

  Warren Buffett

  Focus, Earning, Return

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• Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

  Bill Gross

  Country, Writing, Growth

  "Eurozone crisis live: Brussels hints at austerity rethink as opposition mounts - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

  Bill Gross

  Judging, Analysis, Aspect

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• Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Boring, Disgusting

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• When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars… I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive.

  Marc Faber

  Real, Thinking, Vintage

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