Investment famous quotes
04-24-2025
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The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
-- Alex Winter -
There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future...
-- Alma Powell -
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical
-- Amartya Sen -
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
-- Andrea Jung -
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
-- Andrew Lo -
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. Â It is an investment.
-- Andy Stanley -
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
-- Ann Macbeth -
Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
-- Arnold Bennett -
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
-- Arthur Scargill -
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
-- Austan Goolsbee -
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
-- Ben Horowitz -
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
-- Benjamin Graham -
To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.
-- Benjamin Graham -
I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.
-- Bernard Arnault -
Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.
-- Bob Monkhouse -
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
-- Bob Riley -
While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment.
-- Brian Solis -
There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
-- Bruce Bartlett -
Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.
-- Bud Shuster -
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
-- Buffalo Bill -
The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
-- Camryn Manheim -
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
-- Carlos Slim -
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
-- Charles Duhigg -
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
-- Charles Koch -
Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
-- Christopher Bond -
I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.
-- Christopher Owens -
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
-- Claudia Jones -
You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.
-- Clayton Christensen -
There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.
-- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner -
Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.
-- Daniel Quinn -
Don't emphasise money if you don't have much; be happy
-- Dave Barry -
Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
-- David Dreman -
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
-- David Hare -
Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand.
-- David Ogilvy -
I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.
-- Daymond John -
Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.
-- Diane Watson -
The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.
-- Donald Luskin -
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
-- Donald Trump -
The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
-- Ed Markey -
I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.
-- Eike Batista -
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.
-- Elinor Ostrom -
Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
-- Emily Oster -
The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one
-- George Gobel -
If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.
-- Grace Napolitano -
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.
-- Grace Napolitano -
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one
-- Harold Lewis -
I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.
-- Hill Harper -
China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.
-- Hu Jintao -
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
-- Irwin Redlener -
The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.
-- James L. Kraft -
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
-- James Surowiecki -
Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.
-- Jesse James Garrett -
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.
-- Jim Cramer -
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
-- Jim Rohn -
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
-- Jim Rohn -
We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.
-- Jim Stanford -
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.
-- Joan Robinson -
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.
-- Joan Robinson -
Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself.
-- Joel Sartore -
Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
-- John Bruton -
U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
-- John Bruton -
Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.
-- John Gokongwei -
If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.
-- John Hagee -
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
-- John L. Lewis -
Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.
-- John Neff -
I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.
-- John Neff -
American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.
-- John Shadegg -
Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
-- John W. Snow -
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.
-- Kay Granger -
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.
-- Kay Granger -
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
-- Ken Livingstone -
Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.
-- Koki Hirota -
What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
-- Laura Linney -
Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
-- Laurent Lamothe -
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.
-- Lee Myung-bak -
I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
-- Lee Myung-bak -
An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.
-- Leon G. Cooperman -
Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.
-- Lester Thurow -
Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
-- Marc Benioff -
In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.
-- Mario Draghi -
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here
-- Mark Cuban -
I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
-- Mark Cuban -
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
-- Mark Skousen
