Stock Management Quotes

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

I must have in stock 3000 songs you've never heard.

Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.

Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.

Has anyone actually asked the customer if they want to have something available directly after the show? You hear that three bags are going to be released tomorrow in five shops, so you produce 15 bags. How many customers are you going to satisfy with that? Fifteen!

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

There is no question we have an access stock.

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.

If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.