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Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly. -- Walter Schloss
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them. -- Warren Buffett
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. -- John Tyler
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. -- Jack Welch
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. -- Ferdinand Mount
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research. -- Amar Bose
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. -- John Maeda
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. -- Diane Garnick
One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower. -- Robert Reich
Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands. -- Carter G. Woodson
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return. -- Linus Torvalds
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
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
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse. -- Timothy Noah
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. -- Donald Pleasence
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes. -- Robert Reich
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
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you. -- Blake Mycoskie
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
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts. -- Jackie Speier
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. -- Kamisese Mara
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment. -- Florence Kelley
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion. -- Louis Navellier
I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers. -- Ali Liebegott
There is no limit on earnings. -- Earl Nightingale
Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings -- Syed Sohail Ahmed
I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings. -- Eva Herzigova
Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share. -- Warren Buffett
Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value. -- Warren Buffett
Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings. -- Walter Schloss
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. -- Martha Reeves
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. -- Robert Nozick
I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home. -- James MacArthur
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth. -- Mike Farrell
One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings. -- Walter Schloss
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them. -- Benjamin Graham
Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game. -- Walter Schloss
The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high -- John Paulson
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings. -- Ben Feldman
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. -- Edward Dahlberg
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. -- William Inge
. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears. -- Malcolm Forbes
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects. -- Ben Bernanke
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings. -- Charlie Munger
The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland. -- David Hawkins
Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings. -- David Thwaites
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. -- Benjamin Graham
Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate. -- Bill Bailey
We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings. -- Thomas S. Monson
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis. -- Alex Berenson
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. -- Francis Parkman
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Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. -- Marc Andreessen
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. -- Ben Stein
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies -- Marc Andreessen
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that. -- Nelson Peltz
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. -- Lucy Stone
Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement. -- Nicki Chapman
We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings. -- Ana Claudia Antunes
History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy. -- David Dreman
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. -- Benjamin Graham
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
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
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings. -- John D. Rockefeller
The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to its existing portfolio. -- Geoffrey Moore
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
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings. -- Amy Goodman
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors. -- Ayn Rand
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
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
This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold. -- Fernando Rodes Vila
It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates. -- Larry Wachtel
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. -- Germaine Greer
Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.. -- Bill Vaughan
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
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
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
I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me. -- Gerry Schwartz
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
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings. -- Edmund Phelps
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
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits. -- David Rolf
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
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
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
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
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling. -- Ebenezer Elliott
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
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
One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds. -- David O. Sacks
No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge. -- Thomas Jefferson
Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. -- George S. Clason
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
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors. -- Alex Berenson
Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family. -- George S. Clason
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. -- Robert Nozick
When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares? -- Ted Turner
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands. -- Warren Buffett
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others -- William Graham Sumner
I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
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
Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations. -- Karl Hess
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. -- Andrea Jung
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

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