Capital Expenditures Quotes

To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

In my experience, fledgling entrepreneurs focus way too much on the money - you can get most things done and figure out a lot without spending much. That said, most businesses require money to launch and get off the ground.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

But NESV has always had debt from the first day we purchased the Red Sox. We have some partners who look at Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and almost demand that we have debt as a consequence.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

Mr. Trump has said he strongly supports immediate expensing of capital expenditures, which many economists agree would encourage growth.

Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt.

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

When businesses don't spend and invest, they don't hire and cannot offer better-paying jobs. Business investment and wages are two sides of the same mirror. If a company purchases five trucks rather than 10, there are five fewer trucking jobs.

The ability to immediately deduct the costs of capital investments will help employers improve worker productivity and output - which grows Main Street jobs. And with these savings, businesses across the country will have more freedom to grow, hire new workers, and increase wages.

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.

So I think you want to keep a keen eye on things. Grab it and go. Sure, you check your financials, but don't be afraid to take a jump. Learn the trends.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.