Quotes About Fundamentals

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded—Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.

The only true test of whether a stock is "cheap" or "high" is not its current price in relation to some former price, no matter how accustomed we may have become to that former price, but whether the company's fundamentals are significantly more or less favorable than the current financial-community appraisal of that stock.

It doesn't take long to learn basic English.

A successful team, at the very least they do the basics well, and then they add their own quality on top of that.

I find that wherever I go, people are hungering to get back to basics.

Go back to the basics as life gets more complicated.

We need to keep doing the basics well.

'Mr. Majnu' is just my way of saying that I am trying to start off from the basics.

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.

Preseason, you generally just want to make sure people work hard, do the basics right.

The game is all about doing the basics well, then you've got a chance.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.

I have really good legs for jumping. I have terrible ankles for landing. I wasn't as good fundamentally as John Stockton or Steve Nash, so I had to play like an athlete, in the air all the time, coming down in vulnerable positions.

It's two guys in particular. Norman Smiley, he got his hands on me the day I walked in the door - started teaching me the fundamentals and teaching me things that I use - but Billy Gunn, that guy has helped me evolve more than anyone.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

There are different eras and generations, but basketball is still the same. Old school or new school, the fundamentals of the game- passing, dribbling,and shooting- never change. The styles and forms may change,but from 1946 to 2006, there's been a right way and a wrong way to practice and perform these skills and that remains the same.

Winning squads emphasize fundamentals-pick and rolls,teamwork,and defense. They play with passion and they play hard. They move the ball, and when their players don't have it, they move well without the ball. They play with sagacity by exploiting mismatches. They gauge their opponents weaknesses and then attack them relentlessly.

Foi Galileu, não Nero, quem assentou os fundamentos da tecnologia; Pasteur, e não Napoleão, quem combateu as enfermidades; Freud, e não Schickgruber, quem sondou as profundidades psíquicas. Foram esses cientistas, em suma, que asseguraram a nossa existência. Os outros apenas abusaram das realizações de grandes homens para destruir o processo vital. As raízes da ciência natural penetram mais fundo que qualquer transitório tumulto fascista.

Business is really not that hard. You are, however, required to do the basics or you will not win.

It is fundamentals that matter --- not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)