Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating capital across businesses and boosting returns on that capital is a critical yet poorly recognized one.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.