Kevin Rose Quotes

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.

Who cares if companies are overvalued or not?

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.

I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.

Mediobanca is undervalued but less undervalued than other banks.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

Predicting the market is always tough.

We always look at opportunities. We are not aggressively looking to buy something.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

If you're investing in a company in the Bitcoin economy, you have to compare the valuation of the company to the valuation of the entire economy.

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

The few times that Soros has ever criticized me was when I was really right on a market and didn't maximize the opportunity.

I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.

When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.