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“Growth requires reinvestment.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit

“Avoid companies that are cavalier about issuing new options to managers”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“I am naturally drawn to numbers but one of the ironies of working with numbers is that the more I work with them, the more skeptical I become about purely number-driven arguments.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“The intrinsic value of an asset is determined by the cash flows you expect that asset to generate over its life and how uncertain you feel about these cash flows.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“In the intrinsic valuation chapter, we observed that the value of a firm is a function of three variables—its capacity to generate cash flows, its expected growth in these cash flows, and the uncertainty associated with these cash flows.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“With all of the data and analytical tools at our disposal, you would not expect this, but a substantial proportion of business and investment decisions are still based on the average. I see investors and analysts contending that a stock is cheap because it trades at a PE that is lower than the sector average or that a company has too much debt because its debt ratio is higher than the average for the market. The average is not only a poor central measure on which to focus in distributions that are not symmetric, but it strikes me as a waste to not use the rest of the data.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“As I see it, the future of investing belongs to those who are flexible in their thinking and capable of moving easily from one segment of the market to another.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“Kahneman notes in his book on investor psychology, experience is not a very good teacher in investing and markets. 2 As human beings, we often extract the wrong lessons from past successes, don’t learn enough from our failures, and sometimes delude ourselves into remembering things that never happened.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

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“The right price: Great growth companies can be bad investments at the wrong price. While multiples such as PEG ratios have their limitations, use them (low PEG ratios) to screen for companies that are cheap.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“Greek theater, every story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end, and what keeps a story going is that the incidents within the story are linked together by cause and effect. For the story to have an effect, the protagonist should see a change in fortune over the course of the story. It is amazing how well that structure has held up through time.”
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― Aswath Damodaran

“Do not be afraid to make mistakes.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“pero si compras un activo financiero lo haces por los flujos de caja que esperas recibir.”
― Aswath Damodaran, El pequeño libro de la valoración de empresas: Cómo valorar una compañía, elegir una acción y obtener ganancias

“in the hands of a skilled number cruncher, this bias can be hidden far better with numbers than with stories.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“We relate to and remember stories better than we do numbers, but storytelling can lead us into fantasyland quickly,”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“valuation that is not backed up by a story is both soulless and untrustworthy and that we remember stories better than spreadsheets.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“When a company is paying out more in dividends, it is retaining less in earnings; the book value of equity increases by the retained earnings.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

“I see the world in shades of gray, and in a world where more and more people see only black and white, that makes me an outlier.”
― Aswath Damodaran