There's no replacement for an ability to identify and
buy great businesses at great valuations with the intention of holding them forever, but Enduring Value hinges on the ability of an investor to focus on the qualitative factors of a business over the long - term instead of sticking to an absolute price and over-analyzing a valuation based on quantitative values.
He doesn't take the passive «
Buy great businesses at a reasonable price», he's a Vulture.
After talking about the important concept of economic moats in the first part of his interview, in this second and concluding part, Prof. Bakshi talks about his thoughts on valuations, mental models, diversification, checklists, and why you must
buy great businesses for the long term.
In contrast, when investors
buy great businesses (Jaguars) at above book value, then while their original investment may look expensive (and often turns out to be too expensive), every successive investment made by them in the business through earnings retention happens at book value.
From Munger, Buffett learned that it is better to
buy great businesses at a fair price than a fair business at a great price.
I've evolved from a deep value investor to someone who wants to
buy great businesses at decent prices.
Warren is famous for this approach at Berkshire Hathaway, where
he buys great businesses run by wonderful managers and then gets out of the way.
What Warren does —
buying great businesses that are run by good people, buying and holding, thinking about long term — is still the core of our investment approach.
To us,
buying great businesses at average prices is just as much value investing as is buying average businesses at great prices.
Gayner is a classic Buffett investor: he loves
buying great businesses at fair prices.
This also means that if
you buy a great business at what appears as a «fair price» then you will still end up compounding your money at far more than the discount rate you use to arrive at that «fair price.»
Buffett has evolved over the years, moving from a deep value «cigar butt» investor into one that
buys great businesses at reasonable prices.
buying great business at reasonable price is a very competitive field because i find many fund managers apply this method.
Not exact matches
Buffett might have picked the wrong railroad to
buy, but he knows a
great business when he sees it.
That question has plagued a
great many people trying to decide whether to
buy a current independent
business, a franchise, or what we'll refer to in this text as a
business opportunity.
With easy - to - use
business tools, omni - channel technology is about
buying a
great cupcake and a delicious olive oil.
Initially conceived as a mail - order spice
business, the company (known then as the
Great American Tea Co.) sought to offer discount prices by
buying straight off the ship.
Sponsorships are a
great way for our partners to reach their customers, but it's also as important for us to help them make connections, create new
business opportunities,
buy and sell each other's products... and further increase their ROI.
Building a long - term partnership with a nonprofit can be
great for your
business and the community but a lasting, meaningful alliance can't be
bought with a large check.
One of the
greatest myths about personal or
business success is that eventually your
business, personal abilities, products or services will get discovered and be embraced by the masses that will beat a path to your door to
buy what you are selling.
It was
great, but it would have been
greater if it had had a $ 100 million
business and they
bought it for $ 1 billion.
Find out what quantitative information they have to back up their asking price, says Richard Parker, author of the series, How to
Buy a Good
Business at a
Great Price (Diomo Corporation, 2001 - 2012).
Tiny or hard - to - read typefaces or harsh colors may look
great from a design standpoint, but if you're not designing for the people who
buy from you, you could be losing their
business, Graceffa says.
Taking advantage of the downturn — with its lower
business - for - sale asking prices — by
buying up your competition can put you in a
great position for when the economy bounces back.
Durant was a
great promoter and visionary, and by 1909 he had turned Buick into the best - selling car in the U.S. Searching for a
business model in a new industry, and with the prescient vision that a car company should offer multiple brands, that year he
bought three other small car companies — Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac — and merged them with Buick, renaming the combined company General Motors.
Despite the fact that Disney did not cut its earnings forecasts, despite the fact that cable subscriptions are only a small portion of Disney's otherwise
great businesses and despite the fact the company is
buying back stock hand over fist, the markets have still chosen to abandon Disney.
I work with a
great team who
buys into what we are trying to achieve,» said Bates, who, before opening his CMIT Solutions
business, spent more than 20 years in corporate America.
I know Phoebe it's a
great professional journalist with incredible expertise in the Brand Journalism industry who's helping good
businesses to become
great businesses by staying trasparent and consisntently delivering top notch customer service and most important, educating consumers with the latest and most current information and helping with their
buying decisions.
Tom is also a two - time author, including How Clients
Buy: A Practical Guide to
Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (2018) and Bread and Butter, a critically - acclaimed book that describes his work at
Great Harvest and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks.
Fortinet offers better overall growth than Check Point and stronger profits than Palo Alto, and it isn't weighed down by legacy
businesses like Cisco — which make it a
great stock to
buy and hold this year.
The power of being able to
buy on demand is simply too convenient for consumers to ignore, and for now, while it's not a universal offering, it's a
great way for a small
business to stand out from the competition — or keep them from leaving a
business site and going to Amazon.
«It was
great, but it would have been
greater if it had had a $ 100 million
business and they
bought it for $ 1 billion,» he said.
There is no
greater way to achieve wealth than by private
business, they can be
bought at lower multiples and there is not a need to have percieved value to realize gains like stocks.
While 504 loans are a
great choice, they are only available for
businesses that plan to occupy a majority of the space they
buy (referred to as «owner - occupied commercial real estate»).
Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the
greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can
buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active
business development team.
«Whereas we once might have been more willing to
buy mediocre
businesses at unbelievable prices, we are committed to
buying good
businesses at
great prices and
great businesses at good prices.»
It is a
great calculator to establish whether you should
buy or lease equipment for your
business.
Buying a franchise
business is a
great starting place for those who want to try their hand at
business ownership, with a safety net that starting a
business from scratch does not provide.
«Charlie and I are simply not smart enough to get
great results by adroitly
buying and selling portions of far - from -
great businesses» Warren Buffett
«After 25 years of
buying and supervising a
great variety of
businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult
business problems.
When you're starting your own
business,
buying a franchise can be a
great option.
Lastly, while ROBS is a
great way to start your
business cash rich and debt - free, your retirement funds may still not be enough to start or
buy your
business.
Warren Buffett has spent the last few decades looking to
buy either entire
businesses, or major positions in large cap stocks of
great businesses.
Buying new equipment is
great if you're flush with cash, but most small
business owners aren't.
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The thought here is that with a
great, competitively - advantaged
business, free cash flow (FCF) is more predictable and that the most important action in determining the right price at which to
buy shares is figuring out the FCF the
business is currently throwing off, and the prospects for that FCF to grow in the future.
So, Berkshire could easily
buy Watlington Waterworks, or U.S. Lime, or Omnicom and it would work out
great for Berkshire because he will just re-allocate the free cash flow they can't use inside the
business.
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I'm
buying companies that I believe are fundamentally
great businesses whose share prices should go up in the long - term.
I focus on and pick individual
businesses and real estate to
buy... So called good to
great business / assets by Warren Buffett and other prominent investors.