Best 578 quotes in «investment quotes» category

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

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.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Marketing is an investment, not a cost.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.

Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.

Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

No one else has an investment in your personal life as you do.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

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.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.

People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.