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The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

Those things on the Internet that tell your net worth are wrong for pretty much everyone. When I started YouTube, I was pretty broke and it said $1 million then.

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be worth a lot more. And I think that case can be made in certain situations. But I think to just say, you know, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today.

In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the causes they claim to focus on. Something like 80 or 90% of their money actually goes to a charitable purpose.

I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

When you guys go into some kind of a deal, you know, are you going to do that development or not, are you going to do that renovation or not, you know, you look at the numbers. You try to figure out what's going to work and what's not going to work.

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

Yes, some banks will only float good companies. But others could not give two hoots if you have a business, a business plan or any business experience.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.