Best 578 quotes in «investment quotes» category

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

I don't think investment is that hard. It's doing the simple things on a regular basis.

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

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.

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

If there are possibilities for strengthening investments, they will not fail because of us. Emmanuel Macron is right when he says that we need to do more and talk less.

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.

If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going to be no innovation. So an investment in Microsoft is a bet that the operating system is going to stay the same, it won't be replaced by Linux, Google Docs, or a mobile platform like iOS or Android.

If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.

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.

I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.

I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

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.

I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

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.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.