Quotes About Investment

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

I assume I must have a pension, but I don't know for sure. I have heard of ISAs, but I can't tell you if I have any.

When I've had money I've always spent it. I don't invest. A pension? Yes, it's called my talent.

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

There are many people who think we had the first-mover advantage. But actually, when Uber came to India, Ola was doing only 2,000 rides per day . We had less than half a million dollars of funding.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a consideration when we decided to invest in Shriram Group.

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

Fans want to see their favorite players as invested in games as they are, regardless of the perceived importance.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.