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“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.”

“Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.”

Self Challenges Company

Author:Gary Hamel

“This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"”

People Thinking Ideas Done Certain Opportunity Waiting Company Keys Circumstances Management Investing Obvious Behave Anticipation

Author:Edward Lampert

“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.”

Trying Years Littles Has Beens Lasts Individual My Own Simple Attention Company Groups Industry Approach Investing Criteria Undervalued

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks.”

Way Faces Company Plans Baby Investing Fund Typical Participants Nelson

Author:William J. Bernstein

“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.”

Ifs Forget Results Pay Attention Company Return Investing Pay Attention Operations Investors Dividends

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).”

Looks Company Return Investing Earning

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.”

Company Investing Good And Bad Comes And Goes Bad Company Stock Price

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.”

Should Company Intelligent Investing Investors Panic Good Company Great Company

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.”

Helping Company Management Optimization

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.”

Ifs Feels Important Company Management Contribution

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.”

Way Ends Government Numbers Company Technology Risk Information Return Investment Investing Data Packages Vary High Technology

Author:Seth Klarman

“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.”

Ifs Should Looks Use Care Opportunity Company Records Missing Illusion Concerned Investing Track Projection Precision Very Deep Forecasts Track Record Bright Future Meticulous

Author:Warren Buffett

“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.”

“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Done Enough Moments Results Company Havens Position Ignorance Return Research Investing Active Managers Cover Ups Diversification

Author:Bill Ackman

“We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?”

Knows Wells Ideas Company Focus Bases Investing Why Not Diversification

Author:Bruce Berkowitz

“One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.”

Should Term Company Share Activity Picks Praise Investing Customers Irony Enterprise Pockets Investors Emphasis Brokers Liquidity Turnover Marketability

Author:Warren Buffett

“Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.”

Waiting Ability Company Investing Scales Initials Profitable Best Times Prototype

Author:Dave McClure

“The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.”

Ifs Want Company Talking Careers Pieces Plans Models Investing Starting Competing Monopoly Business Models

Author:Peter Thiel

“If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?”

Ifs Years Wells Moments Might Growth Company Ten Concern Rate Investing

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.”

Needs May Has Beens Matter Certain Company One Thing Management Investing Surface Statements Chiefs Executives Investors Earning Chief Executives Large Companies

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.”

Years Long Remember Next Term Half Company Share Months Six Years Ago Fundamentals Sells Investing Long Term Shock Fund Dozen Elsewhere Employed Six Months Recommendations

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community.”

Community Company Industry Investing Financial Currents Careful Extras Buying Darling

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.”

People Trying Company Practice Findings Sells Investing Dear Staying Profitable Outstanding Colorful Fluctuation

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.”

Believe Values Company Investing Believe In Me

Author:Walter Schloss

“You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.”

People Knows Wells Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.”

Ifs Knows Values Company Investing Earning

Author:Walter Schloss

“Try to establish the value of a company.”

Trying Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.”

Looks Values Company Investing Debt

Author:Walter Schloss

“I like the idea of company-paid dividends.”

Ideas Values Company Paid Investing Dividends

Author:Walter Schloss

“Look at companies selling at new lows.”

Looks Values Company Lows Investing Selling

Author:Walter Schloss

“I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.”

People Trying Values Company Investing Aggressive Investors Passive

Author:Walter Schloss

“A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?”

Wells Values Company Plant Investing Assets Tied Equipment Tied Up

Author:Walter Schloss

“We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.”

Trying Book Values Company Sells Investing Selling Evaluate

Author:Walter Schloss

“Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick exit. It is centered on long-term value creation.”

Long Values Term Company Creation Objectives Long Term Manufacturing Exit

Author:Hamdi Ulukaya

“I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.”

Company New York Cheese Upstate New York Feta Cheese

Author:Hamdi Ulukaya

“While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.”

People Motivation Individual Levels Company Missing Assuming Revenge Rational Suspects Underestimate Intuitive

Author:Dan Ariely

“It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.”

Wells President Company Mets Paper Warm Oil Drivers President Bush Reception Oil Companies Daytona Daytona 500

Author:Jay Leno

“People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.”

People Religious Company Groups Human Nature College Garden Clubs Executives Combat Elites Committees Competing Marine Sects Fraternity Collectivity Religious Sects

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.”

“If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Ends Enjoy Company Comfortable First Time Cooking Dinner Spending Kitchen Holiday Preparing Recipes Cooking For Others

Author:Rachael Ray

“The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?”

Wells May Company Shame Fellows Lays Faults Accidents Guides Multitudes Inconstancy

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.”

Knows Should Company Hell Hip Hop Creator Hips Hops Violinist

Author:Miri Ben-Ari

“It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.”

Company Size Profit Efficiency Handicaps

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.”

Wells Sound Company Subjects Victim Suicide Survivor Dread Polite Family And Friends Taboo Inappropriate

Book:Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention

Source: Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention

“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.”

Change Company Vision Successful Conditions Remains Competition Landscape Strategic Altered Successful Company Strategic Vision

Author:Ralph Abernathy

“They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.”

Home Used Company Talking Discussion Talkers

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.”

Attitude Company Manners

Book:Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home

Source: Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home

“You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”

Want Dream Past Company Too Much Future Protect Survival Concern Concerned Longing Dues Extinction Protect Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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