Quotes About Investment

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.

When we leave our kids with more student debt than necessary, we've failed them.

I've had to take out a couple of loans; I'm not gonna lie. I want to pay off my debts. I want to start stacking some cash and set myself up for the future.

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

The issue of access to growth capital is common to all entrepreneurs. Any entrepreneur who can demonstrate a credible business model and plan would be able to access to capital.

Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.

My father decided early on to get me the best education money could buy. He wanted me to have the opportunities that were denied to him.

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.

If you're passionate enough you can restore anything but it depends whether you're doing it to try and make money or just because you're crazy about it.

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get fixed-rate 30-year loans, but banks don't want to keep 30-year loans on their books.