Quotes About Interest

A successful investor is generally a well-rounded individual who puts a natural curiosity and an intellectual interest to work.

Unlike common stocks, whose dividends and earnings fluctuate with the ups and downs of the company's business, bonds pay a fixed dollar amount of interest. If the U.S. Treasury offers a $1,000 20-year, 5 percent bond, that bond will pay $50 per year until it matures, when the principal will be repaid. Corporate bonds are less safe, but widely diversified bond portfolios have provided reasonably stable interest returns over time.

Los que tienen algo que vender, los que desean influir en la opinión pública, los que mandan, podría sugerir un escéptico, tienen un interés personal en no fomentar el escepticismo.

From this distant vantage point, the meat planet might not seem of any particular interest: an obscure and solitary lump, suspended in a sunbeam.

We do not know whether Melville's work is of universal interest because we have not reached the end of history yet, despite the best efforts of some of our political leaders.

I have my wizard's rock along. Could I interest you? Adie's face softened in a shy smile. I would like that very much. She watched him as she sat back, taking a bite of her apple. Zedd arched an eyebrow. Naked?

They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals.

I saved a man's life once, said Granny. Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency...

The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what's in the public interest is not what the public is interested in.

He had spent years in search of boredom, but had never achieved it. Just when he thought he had it in his grasp his life would suddenly become full of near-terminal interest.

She looked at him now and then on the sly, and felt, for the first time in her life, an interest in a man on his own account. He was so big, so handsome, so forceful.

And who wouldn't want to date Jonathan Bennett, right?

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

I was more interested in journalism and fact-finding than other things, so I didn't plan to work 30 years as a lawyer.

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.

I first heard about Common Goal through Juan Mata and knew it was something I'd be interested in.