Henry Earl Singleton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem.
-- Henry Earl Singleton

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Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.
-- Henry Earl Singleton

#Attitude #Keys #Cash Flow
I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.
-- Henry Earl Singleton

#Believe #Topics #Environment
I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.
-- Henry Earl Singleton

#Believe #Timing #Nonsense
I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they've worked out on all kinds of things, but we're subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible. My only plan is to keep coming to work every day. I like to steer the boat each day rather than plan ahead way into the future.
-- Henry Earl Singleton

#Strong #Ideas #Numbers
I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.
-- Henry Earl Singleton

#Jobs #Interest #Term

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Henry Earl Singleton famous quotes

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