Best 578 quotes in «investment quotes» category

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.

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.

For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.

Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price that has been paid to buy the loyalty of the local elite through an enormous tribute of multibillion[-ruble] investments, all this cannot be an arrangement for good.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice.  It is an investment.

God gave you a gift and he deserves a return on his investment.

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.

Generosity is the best investment.

Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.

Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

Having great clients is the key to investment success.

I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

I am surprised at the number of Puerto Ricans that are moving out of Puerto Rico still. I thought that, by now, the immigration of Puerto Ricans had decreased a little bit. But, no, with a hurricane, it has increased even more. So, I see the financial institutions, especially the hedge funds, moving into Puerto Rico with all the - with all the force, knowing that their investments towards the future are going to be multiplied or probably elevated to quantities beyond any notion of how capital works.

I call children "our ultimate investment.

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

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 did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.