But if you concentrate your holdings, you better be concentrated in high
quality businesses at a fair cost.
He changed his thinking to buying higher
quality businesses at fair prices and let them compound returns over many years.
I would not personally advice people to take on debt for investments unless they are very sure and very comfortable in their ability to purchase high
quality businesses at fair or better prices and have demonstrated this ability for at least 3 years.
«Buy high -
quality businesses at a price that is not reflective of the intrinsic value of the business as it is, and certainly not reflective of what the intrinsic value would be if it were run better.
The Firm seeks to invest in high -
quality businesses at low valuations, with the goal of generating outperformance over a full market cycle while managing the level of risk.
While we remain focused on long - term business fundamentals as we evaluate potential investments, we don't mind taking advantage of higher volatility to increase exposure to high -
quality businesses at more attractive prices.
They focus on buying high
quality businesses at reasonable prices when there is a short - term dislocation and shorting expensive poor quality businesses.
We seize opportunities at times like these to purchase
quality businesses at lower prices.
As former executive director Mark Knudsen explains, «Our target is to have 15 high -
quality businesses at the end of three years.»
If you buy
a quality business at a big discount to intrinsic value, you get the potential of a double dip — the gap to intrinsic value hopefully closes and then you can also benefit from the company compounding per - share value over a number of years.
«What is not to like about a set of beliefs that emphasises the sense of buying
a quality business at a decent price?
Not exact matches
And then (perhaps more commonly) there are more complex cases, in which lack of
business skill (say,
at providing high -
quality service) results in a desire by some employees to engage in compensatory wrongdoing, and that wrongdoing is made easier by ongoing incompetent accounting.
Be Good
at Everything and Great
at Something Customers expect your
business to offer
quality at good prices with prompt service, but they don't expect you to be the market leader on all three fronts.
The wind is
at our back in terms of the
quality of the
business, the equity of the brand, how we're doing in China.
He poked fun
at what we called his «hilariously useless» guide to playing the xylophone as an example of what not to do, and said content farms should focus on
quality, not quantity of content, and that Google will eventually reward those that do with better search rankings, and therefore that it will be better for
business over the long run.
For the newbie technology - driven Fintech entrants (entrepreneurs) For the new entrepreneurs aiming
at offering value - driven services to demystify finance as a domain, and to raise
quality funding from both angels as well as VCs, More's suggestion is to build a commercially viable and solid
business proposition, then focus on customer experience and efficient execution.
«A lot of people get discouraged about meditation because they like the idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing»
at it because they just come face to face with the
quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell,
Business Insider's program director.
The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more
businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my
business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city
at all costs» — and
quality of life for young people.
«It will look
at the different
business models for high -
quality journalism.
It was through networking with other
business professional that allowed him to launch Simply Bridal which offers higher
quality gowns
at deeply discounted prices, raising the bar high for online and offline shopping.
At the Iconic Tour in Los Angeles, the California Baby founder says that adhering to the company's values of creating high -
quality products has helped keep
business growing so rapidly.
Once you make these
qualities into a cornerstone of your hiring, you can smile
at the fads and fancy scoring systems, knowing that your
business is being built on the one foundation that never changes — human nature.
Henry Blodget, editor of the
Business Insider website, said his wake - up call came when his six - year - old daughter playfully gave him the Native American name «Daddy who is boring» for his constant pecking
at keys during supposed
quality time with his kids.
In a recent talk
at the Bloomberg Global
Business Forum, he explained that while IQ is certainly helpful, and EQ is also beneficial for getting ahead, his rags to riches story was possible only because he possessed another extremely valuable
quality — LQ.
With so many top -
quality tools now available
at affordable monthly prices, even small
businesses with one - person sales teams can boost their effectiveness.
The
qualities you need to succeed
at a big, stable
business are very different from those you need to thrive
at a growing startup.
But if you worked
at GE
at that time and heard Welch speak, he would have focused over and over again on just three things: globalize the
business, drive service and recurring revenues, and improve
quality throughout the company by embracing the discipline of six sigma.
And if you have all those
qualities — plus one more essential ingredient — then you have an excellent shot
at business success.
Each day our team is creating
quality on - line news, publishing a high
quality newspaper, putting together major events, compiling a rich database on WA industry and talking to
business at every level.
And the reason that I had for that
at the time was if I picked out a positive
quality about myself from that list or an aspirational
quality of myself from that list, then every time someone referred to my
business, that would be me getting that affirmation over and over and over again.
Today, she's
at the same institution with a different role — she transitioned from the
business - operations team on the academic side of things to being a
quality specialist on the hospital side — and receiving a much higher annual salary: $ 72,000.
With the help of Georgia
businesses, communities, our economic development partners and citizens, we are a state committed to creating
quality job and investment opportunities
at every corner.
Before I talk about three basic
qualities of great companies, let's look
at the current
business landscape.
Sherman is no stranger to courtrooms — his
business relies on convincing regulators to let him market drugs — but this year, his legal headaches include a U.S. FDA ban stemming from
quality - control complaints
at his Banaglore, India, plant.
Unfortunately, many low - budget SEO providers are stuck in a pre-Penguin era of SEO, convincing
business owners that low -
quality spam tactics still work, and taking their money while yielding negative results or none
at all.
More expensive isn't going to be the right choice for everyone (and there are
quality programs to be had
at lower prices) but if you want to fly
business class, that means paying
business - class prices.
Gallup has discovered links between employee engagement
at the
business - unit level and vital performance indicators, including customer ratings; higher profitability, productivity and
quality (fewer defects); lower turnover; less absenteeism and shrinkage (i.e., theft); and fewer safety incidents.
With the increasing reliance on tax data for
business surveys, I fear for the
quality of GDP estimates — and just look
at what the Conference Board's error on the China LEI did to the markets this week.
Faculty and staff
at the Haskayne School of
Business are proud to be part of a dynamic environment with a strong and growing international reputation for high
quality research and teaching.
I want a stock that's trading
at a good valuation, that has good
quality scores, a good balance sheet, that are good
businesses, and then they've had some recent momentum.»
As I surf the web, found so many low
quality businesses but ranking
at the top of the search results.
Arash spent the first 14 years of his career
at the biotech company Genentech, where he held a variety of positions in the Corporate Information Technology group, including Software Engineer, Project Manager, and Enterprise Architect, supporting the Manufacturing, R&D, Engineering, and
Quality Assurance
business units.
The medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, requires most insurance companies that cover individuals and small
businesses to spend
at least 80 percent of their premium income on health care claims and
quality improvement.
With the right content strategy, you'll give your
business a bulletproof way to get high -
quality leads
at an affordable rate.
Very simply, they are high
quality businesses that can grow their intrinsic value
at high rates of return over long periods of time.
As for individual stocks (
at least the stable,
quality businesses), you don't liquidate just because a recession may depress earnings next quarter, or even for a few years.
«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group
at Cass
Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good -
quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»
With CMIT Impression, our new visual collaboration package, CMIT Solutions has done what until recently seemed impossible: Construct a video conferencing system with the
quality and flexibility of enterprise - level video conferencing systems but
at a cost suited for small
business — and open to all the varied video chat tools small
businesses use.
In fact, we recently conducted a survey that found 90 percent of female customers in the US would go out of their way to purchase products from women, believing they would offer higher
quality,» stated MiKaela Wardlaw Lemmon, senior director of Women's Economic Empowerment
at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's
Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned
businesses, and help these women continue to grow their
businesses.»
With
quality at the heart of both
businesses, the customer base has expanded non-domestically, with orders coming in from Canada, Europe and Australasia as well as the USA.