Quotes About Companies

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

What [companies] are doing is they're leaving our country, and they're, believe it or not, leaving because taxes are too high and because some of them have lots of money outside of our country.

Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.

In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper!

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

If you want to become "a stock market master," he explained, "stick to buying good companies (ones that have a high return on capital) and to buying those companies only at bargain prices (at prices that give you a high earnings yield).

Most of the mainframe computer companies never successfully made the transition to minicomputers, and most mini-computer companies missed out on PCs.

And how would he learn his history now? Imagine growing up in a world where only generals and geniuses, empires and companies, had histories, not your own town or grandfather, house or Samantha—none of the things you'd loved.

In common parlance, the shares of good companies are called "growth stocks," and those of bad companies are called "value stocks.

Thus, the logic of the market suggests that: Good companies are generally bad stocks, and bad companies are generally good stocks. Is this actually true? Resoundingly, yes. There have been a large number of studies of the growth-versus-value question in many nations over long periods of time. They all show the same thing: unglamorous, unsafe value stocks with poor earnings have higher returns than glamorous growth stocks with good earnings. Probably

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

As one critic of these schemes wrote, 'the only winners in equity release are the companies and elderly people who die just a few years after taking out the policy.