Being women behind a massively growing business is not an easy task, and the journey to find the right investors and to secure true partners has proven that.
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.
The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.
If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.
Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
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.
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.
Focus on value because most investors focus on outlooks and trends.
Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
I view investors as our partners and stakeholders in the company. They are trying to build financial models. What I try to focus on is helping them understand how we think.
When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.
I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.
Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.
It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation - especially for investors - in modern financial history.
Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.
Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.
The DOJ has long considered the SEC an indispensable partner in protecting markets and investors, promoting lawful commerce around the world, and deterring misconduct.
We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.
Most citizens are consumers, not investors. They don't recognize the benefits to consumers that come from investment.
Many investors understandably want to do good while also doing well. But the standards for ESG investing are often unclear and sometimes contradictory.
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
Technology is a tough realm to navigate as a younger woman who is not married. It can be hard to cultivate professional relationships because you have to be conscious of how to engage potential investors.
If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.
A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.
Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.
Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone - investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.
Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.
Typically in a panic, corporate bonds sell off as investors fear weaker growth, tighter financial conditions, or need liquidity.
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
We want to clean up South Africa so that we can begin to make it more attractive to investors but at the same time to deal with the issues that are impeding growth.
Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.
It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.
My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.
Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
The investors who generate big returns over five years, the guys they write books about, are supposed to keep winning, right? Well, they don't.
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.
Individual investors beware: If you're constantly worried about a crash, you're probably making some big mistakes - and losing a lot of money in the process.
While U.K. is one of India's most important trade and investment partners, India has become one of the largest investors in the U.K.
Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.
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