Quotes About Investment

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko:

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Of the growth in total national output in Germany between 1935 and 1938 almost half (47 per cent) was accounted for directly by the increase in the Reich's military spending.15 If we add investment, of which a very large part was dictated either by the priorities of autarchy or rearmament, the share rises to two-thirds (67 per cent).

The big-ticket hardware folks invest the capital, take all the risks—which are huge—suffer the losses and the write-downs, and then let somebody else capture the business that has predictability, lower price sensitivity, higher margins, recurring revenue, and the opportunity to create an ongoing customer relationship, because the frequency of purchase is ten times greater than the frequency of the initial transaction. "So

My passion is creating lucrative opportunities around the world and online.

No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.

I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.

I don't get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.

Of course I have other passions... but my real investment obviously without a second thought is LVMH and what my father created.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

There are no patents in finance.

It takes getting the right talent. It takes a lot of patience. It takes investment and passion and commitment and entrepreneurial spirit, and everyone in the organization must buy into that.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

We will pay the debts by growing and exporting... The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.