Share Price Quotes

• Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

  Dominic Lawson

  Greed, Share, Minus

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• A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

  Benjamin Graham

  Doe, Ownership, Share

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• [Simon Segars ] came by a few times.I told him, "If you understand the future of the internet of things that much, then you should add more engineers and go on the offensive." Simon had explained to analysts and others that he intended to do that sort of forward-looking investment, but he said it's tough for a listed company considering its share price falls if profits drop.

  Masayoshi Son

  Fall, Add, Goes On

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.

  Peter Cundill

  Book, Long, Debt

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• All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.

  Laurie Garrett

  Organization, America, Corporations

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• Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

  John Templeton

  Share, Values

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• Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

  Warren Buffett

  Swings, Lemmings, Return

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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• For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Strong, Past, Average

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• What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

  James Surowiecki

  Community, Doe, Investment

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