Quotes About Valuation

Duveen instantly wrote his ten-thousand-pound purchase off as a total loss, but the pictures he acquired from the diplomat's friends returned him a profit many times as large as his investment.

You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Tom Perkins's dictums: you succeed in venture capital by backing the right deals, not by haggling over valuations.

gold, silver, and diamonds, are things that fancy or agreement hath put the value on, more than real use

A valuation, which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which really do not make much difference . . . since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.

The intrinsic value of an asset is determined by the cash flows you expect that asset to generate over its life and how uncertain you feel about these cash flows.

In the intrinsic valuation chapter, we observed that the value of a firm is a function of three variables—its capacity to generate cash flows, its expected growth in these cash flows, and the uncertainty associated with these cash flows.

valuation that is not backed up by a story is both soulless and untrustworthy and that we remember stories better than spreadsheets.

pero si compras un activo financiero lo haces por los flujos de caja que esperas recibir.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

We all know the principle that the polluter pays? Well one day I got to wondering why it is that the polluter seems to get away with it quite so often! Then it occurred to me that if the polluter is going to pay, somebody needs to tell him how much. The proper valuation of natural capital will enable us to say how much.

The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

A Land Valuation Tax is a levy on the value of the land unimproved by buildings or other enhancement. The method is already used by insurance companies each year when they calculate your home insurance premium - they separate the cost of a total rebuild of the property from the value of the land itself.

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.

We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.

If there is in deconstruction any hint towards valuation, towards the choice of one text for commentary rather than another, it lies merely in the wealth, gamesomeness and ingenuity of the misreadings or emancipations which it occasions.

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.