Quotes About Investment

In Western Pennsylvania, our parents and grandparents left us a strong system of roads, rails, bridges, locks, dams, streetcars, and more - an investment that paid off throughout the twentieth century. It now falls to our generation to rebuild and improve upon this system for the twenty-first century.

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.

The electric grid powers the lives of all Americans - we need to invest in the research to ensure our constituents, companies, and defense installations have electricity when they need it most.

I used practically all the money I had available.

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

I think our young people are our most precious possession.

We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?'

For people who invest in bitcoin, the allure is precisely that: It's not backed by a central government. So it's not manipulatable by central government.

As the world has become more predatory and aggressive, my impression is that the investment banking business has moved from being relationship-oriented to being increasingly transaction-oriented.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

It may seem premature, but you need to be thinking of your exit from the moment you accept capital, because at that moment, you've made an explicit agreement with an investor that he or she will eventually be able to gain liquidity.

Every year in the Premier League, every team is improving. Every team is buying new players.

The Premier League has the power to spend more money on players than the Bundesliga. This is very, very important for players.

Swansea invested in me. They took a chance on me because I was a second-choice goalkeeper with not much experience when it comes to Premier League games.

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

If you want to build a good team, you need to spend a lot of money, especially in the Premier League.

Sometimes you pay a premium to get what you want.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.