Famous Quotes & Sayings

Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

Things like Dell Computer or Microsoft or Cisco Systems, all have one characteristic: They have enough cash to go through a period like this and come out smelling like roses,

They are a cash machine. They print money, ... While there is no revenue pressure, they'll try to keep certain things pristine.

We weren't expecting anything like $2.55, ... It's going to come out of cash reserves of whatever fund is connected (to each department.)

We will not stand by and let our consumers be exploited by profiteers looking to cash in on Hurricane Katrina.

The public is in a semi-shocked state and cash remains on the sidelines on Wall Street despite everything being on sale, ... The main downside pressure seems to be continued earnings disappointments in the tech sector and we had downgrades today that were troublesome.

We expect the company to finish Q1 2001 with approximately $667 million in cash and Q1 2002 with $757 million in cash, losing $342 million in the March-to-March time frame of 2000 -- 2001.

We expect that it will sell out much quicker than a normal instant cash ticket. You might get some people that might not be regular lottery players but are Red Wings fans who would like to certainly win cash, but (also) some of the different prize packs. It's reaching out to the hockey fan.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Truman Capote

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Peter Lynch

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

Prince Philip

Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?

Roger Ebert

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

Robert G. Allen

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

Warren Buffett

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Samuel L. Jackson

Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.

Jean Shepherd

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Jeff Bezos

Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

Jeff Bezos

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Generally, Wal-Mart can give real-time data faster than the government, because they can just pull this off their cash registers.

Generally, there's a lot of cash around and, when the market starts performing, it does start feeding on itself.

Gamers will compete for cash and prizes totaling more than $2 million simply by playing versions of their favorite skill-based games.

Good teams find a way to cash in on the power play. We didn't have that.

Chris Hardwick

You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is.

So our challenge, in this era, is to find good opportunities where we can take that stable cash flow from the regulated pipes and re-invest it in new high-quality opportunities.

It looks like a nice start but it's hard to tell, hard to have a perspective until we start seeing the cash register receipts. It's hard to tell, but it's perfect shopping weather.

It looks like a lot of investors made quarter-end adjustments yesterday as they put cash to use at the quarter's end. Today it seems like the economic news wasn't particularly surprising and the energy markets were relatively flat.

Everybody seems to be focusing on cash flow generation, which was phenomenal in the quarter.

Stocks will continue to rally. Earnings have been good and companies are flush with cash for takeovers.

Stocks will continue to rally. Companies are flush with cash for takeovers and this will continue to give momentum to markets.

It's inconsistent that UH pays rent. We've always had a cash surplus every year.