Michael Bennet Quotes

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.

On days like today you realize that you just can't keep these hypergrowth stocks down.

The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company that's growing fast. Shareholders made a lot of money. If you invested $25,000 from January 1987 to January 1994, you'd have more than a million dollars. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from that.

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

The stock boom was blowing great guns when I came into office.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.