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  • I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

    Fun   Blue   Guy  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

  • Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

    Business   Fall   Balance  
  • Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.

    Country   Real   Thinking  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.

    Strong   Balance   Needs  
    "Market needs to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw". ET Now Interview, economictimes.indiatimes.com. April 26, 2013.
  • Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

    Loss   Gambling   Years  
    "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.
  • We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

    Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
  • The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

    Two   People   Balance  
  • Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

    Balance   Facts   Sheets  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • ...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

    Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.60, Penguin
  • The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

    "Entrepreneurial Minds: Clarifying your expectations". Business Week, October 26, 2014.
  • You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

    Healthy   Balance   Fuel  
    Bill McKibben (2013). “Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist”, p.103, Macmillan
  • The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.

    People   House   Balance  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

    Balance   Glitter   Weak  
  • While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

  • The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

    "The 'Uncredible' Dog And Pony Show: Merkel And Sarkozy" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. October 10, 201.
  • We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

    "Vince Cable reveals £1bn backing for business bank to help small firms" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.
  • In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.

    Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”
  • A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

  • I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.

    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

    Safety   Worry   Balance  
  • Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

    Eye   Long   Giving  
  • Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

  • What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what this old world needs is just the art of being kind? Every time I visit a factory or any other large business concern, I find myself trying to diagnose whether the atmosphere is one of kindliness or the reverse. And somehow, if there is palpably lacking that spirit of kindness, the owners ... have fallen short of achieving 24-carat success no matter how imposing the financial balance sheet may be.

  • The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

    Running   Dream   Believe  
    Source: www.mikechurch.com
  • For most businesses, America is the most important asset on their balance sheet.

    Source: time.com
  • If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.

  • What outsourcing causes - what it's caused by, rather. I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet. I happen to believe that having been in the private sector for twenty-five years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created - that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand.

    Jobs   Believe   Years  
  • Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

  • We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

    Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons
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