Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living. ' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused on making the best possible movie we could, and earning the right to do more.
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks. . . . investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power
My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.
Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to keep up whatever I was doing. Yeah, Mom, I'll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.
Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.
The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business.
Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.