Carol Loomis

“Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.”

“The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.”

“On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.”

“The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.”

“I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.”

“Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'”

“The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.”

“There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.”

“In meeting the challenges of organic growth, BlackRock has the advantage of having an executive team greatly respected for what it has accomplished.”

“In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman routines on television, Lee Iacocca brought Chrysler back from the abyss.”

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

“Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.”

“It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.”

“The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.”

“Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place.”

“Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.”

“In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.”

“The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.”

“In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.”

“The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.”