Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Thiel

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.

Karen Mills

Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

Marc Faber

The Japanese share market will strongly outperform New York in the next five years, ... The enormous cash reserves from private households and companies, the money they keep under their mattresses, will flow into the economy.

The loss in itself does not constrain player spending, after all we did invest significantly in the summer. It is the level of debt and future cash flows that govern our transfer activity.

All the proceeds (from the cash bar) are going to the Hyatt employees who lost everything in the hurricane impacted areas.

And if you then want to play it yourself, you better understand accounting. You better understand discounted cash flow because stocks are not lottery tickets. They are real companies and eventually they can only grow as far as their real earnings, not their fictitious earnings.

The market is on a strong footing as more investors return after the holiday week and those who made profits in recent trading are reinvesting their cash into stocks.

The market is genuinely tightening. That's being reflected in the renewed spread on the cash to three months.

To use the word 'crisis' was unfortunate. It would hardly be a crisis if the company were growing faster than people expected and, therefore, had to defer free cash flow for a quarter or two.

Traditionally, the single downside of the online program has been the credit-card payment requirement. But we have computers in the office here where individuals can pay cash and take the test, so we expect the program to grow even more.

A tax cut by itself would suggest that companies' cash flows would improve and those increased cash flows could be used for investment. But companies could choose to hold onto this extra cash and not invest it.

At first glance, this seems like a strange deal as investors in Sears Holdings are looking for cash generation, not new investments.

As we have said before, the investor owns IBM for its consistent earnings and cash flow growth and relatively high degree of earnings predictability.

Ty Pennington

Absolutely, we're going in. We want to do whatever we can. But the cool thing is that we can all start (helping) right now -- as long as you give something, whether it's time or cash or whatever you have.

It's been brutal. It's more of the same but tech is in its own world right now and it's a world of hurt. Cash is king right now.

A lot of people counted on us to kind of cash it in after such an emotional loss. We battled back to go 5-0 to end the season. It's kind of a testament to our team and our coaching staff.

A lot of people want to donate to this and it won't take a lot of cash to do this because of in-kind grants and donations.

Justin Torres

American education (today) is far more interested in specific outcomes. There are all kinds of outside pressures on schools, and one way they have responded is offering cash bonuses.

Tom Smith

They have a lot of cash on hand and need to do something with it.

This a cash machine that is sharing the wealth. That's an important catalyst for long-term growth.

They've done something wonderful with that house. But I don't think they have cash flow to make it long term. They'll have to sell at some point. The question is when to pull the plug.

Tony Lewis

They're very quick in what they're doing. They're just grabbing cash and leaving. They go so far and that usually leads to their downfall, we usually catch them.

It's two times oversubscribed. That keeps a lot of cash on the sidelines.

For instance, I think conglomerates such as Philip Morris (are) a cash cow, ... The stock is doing quite nicely, holding up around near the higher end of the trading level here.

David Healy

Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.

It's now clear that the wage concession would not give them enough cash to continue for any time frame.

It's obviously never a nice sign when you have a chairman cash out this much of his holdings in such a short period of time. Obviously, if he's that clueless, you wonder why he holds the job, and I doubt if he's that clueless.

They are doing what they can to milk the cash flow while the getting is good. Oil prices are such that it certainly pays to explore and extract.

They are doing whatever it takes to get it done. The employees should be appreciative. Without these moves, their days would be numbered. They would have had a declining cash cow, a non-growth company forever. Now they have a chance to grow. (Management has) transformed it into a new company.

They are definitely in a cash crunch right now.

There was a strong signal from gearing at just 13 percent and strong free cash flow generation in Q4, and that's the reason why the share bounced back.

There were some value investors that did very well focusing in on the underlying cash flow and the value of the organization when our stock was lower. They've done very well.

There's a lot of electronic evidence, that when you examine it shows that these people aren't getting breaks, but they're continuing to run the cash register or do inventory or whatever.