EBITDA

“Now, if you're talking about oil companies, or steel mills, or heavy capital intensive businesses, it's not a good map, because the D that you're subtracting out to sort of talk about the earnings power, Not only is that D real and shouldn't be subtracted out,…”

“Where we are active buyers of businesses, sellers of businesses have been conditioned to use that phrase. So if you come in and try to academically explain the limitations or what adjustments you need to make, they're gonna sell that business to somebody else.…”

“Warner said in the past he's not a believer in EBITDA, but we are. We think it's the cash that the business generates that, and so we're always saying, well, what's the multiple on EBITDA, and so we know what cash is coming, because You can usually cut back on…”

“You see a lot of these middle market private equity firms do that. They roll up these small companies. They're doing five, 10, twenty million dollars EBITDA each, and they bat, they just buy a bunch of them, and now they're up to a hundred million or two hundr…”

“Our view on sort of EBITDA is there's some industries where it makes sense, but in most industries, depreciation and amortization is real, and so if you focus on that, I think you sometimes give yourself false confidence in terms of what the business really lo…”

“If making acquisitions is part of my business model, there are no longer one-time costs.”

“EBITDA is the mother of all disastrous measures.”

“You see a lot of these middle market private equity firms do that. They roll up these small companies. They're doing five, 10, twenty million dollars EBITDA each, and they bat, they just buy a bunch of them, and now they're up to a hundred million or two hundr…”