Quotes About Analysis

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

Accounting is the language of business.

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

My business is the analytical framework.

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.