Stock Price Appreciation Quotes

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

What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value.

Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

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.

Netflix is a better company with more upside than we had given it credit for than when we shorted it.

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.

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

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.

Who cares if companies are overvalued or not?

In many situations today, you can make far more than the spread by holding onto the acquirer's stock after the transaction is completed.