Quotes About Investment

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

his son, Eric, who, in 2014, told golf writer James Dodson, "We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.… We've got some guys that really, really love golf, and they're really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

transition to mechanisms for getting to scale, fast. The business that has been protected from conventional disciplines (such as producing return on investment)

spend more time with a specific set of must-have customers, disproportionate to the revenue they might account for at that specific point of time; taking on projects which might not give high margins initially, but might eventually become big;

A more effective approach in uncertain environments is to allow resources to be invested only when uncertainty is reduced, a core principle of options reasoning.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

it decided last year to become a 'broad energy' firm, investing up to 15–20 percent of annual capital expenditure in 'new energy solutions' by 2030, mostly in offshore wind.

Commitment can be cash, but doesn't have to be. Think of it in terms of currency—what are they giving up for you? A compliment costs them nothing, so it's worth nothing and carries no data. The major currencies are time, reputation risk, and cash.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

It is said that if you give £500 to a rich person they could turn it into a million one day, and if you give £500 to a poor person they will turn it into an iPhone.

POOR BELIEF: 'YOU HAVE TO WORK REALLY HARD TO MAKE MONEY' WEALTHY BELIEF: 'YOU HAVE TO MAKE MONEY WORK REALLY HARD FOR YOU

We spend time as investors thinking about the ability to accelerate or sustain elevated growth, as well as working with management teams to try and minimize the execution risk associated with that growth.

Wallace with an investment of $5,000; Time, started on a shoestring in 1923 by Henry Luce and his partner Briton Hadden; and The New Yorker, the creation of editor Harold

The researchers thought that recipients of precise offers are much more likely to believe that the person making that offer has invested time and effort preparing for the negotiation and therefore has very good reasons to support the precise offer they are making.

With declining state and local spending, total public spending on education, infrastructure, and basic research has dropped from 12 percent of GDP in the 1970s to less than 3 percent in 2011.

There's no problem with borrowing from the future in order to finance investments in the future.

Borrowers can already use bankruptcy to protect their vacation homes and investment properties, so why not their primary homes?

Wall Street is a casino in which high-stakes wagers are placed within a limited number of betting houses that keep a percentage of the wins for themselves and fob off losses on others, including taxpayers.

over the last 16 years, we have spent trillions of dollars on wars when we could have been investing that money productively.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

Having a self-published book is akin to having a newborn baby - if you don't give it the loving care and attention it deserves, it will die.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

Penny wise, pound foolish.