Best 578 quotes in «investment quotes» category

The question is not about whether it will work or not. It's how quickly we can pull it off. Structural change will happen. When economies grow, there comes a time when you cannot rely on investment alone. We had that. The return on investment is becoming less and less. So we have to change. The old model doesn't work anymore. It's a question of speed.

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

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.

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It is therefore almost inevitably statist and socialistic.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.

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.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

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.

The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.

These debt obligations will simply erode America's standard of living in the future. Money spent to service the debt is money that we don't have to spend on consumption's goods, or on investment in our future.

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.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

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.

To a value investor, investments come in three varieties: undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another price, and overvalued at still some higher price. The goal is to buy the first, avoid the second, and sell the third.

To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself.

Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

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.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

We have worked to make our trade negotiations more transparent and to negotiate value-based agreements. We have listened to concerns, for example by carrying out a reform of the investment protection system and setting out to create a multilateral investment court. Our world is rapidly changing and this creates a multitude of concerns.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

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.