Quotes About Investment

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

In our time, even the most seemingly transgressive visions of technology in everyday life invariably fall back to the familiar furniture of capital investment, surplus extraction and exploitation. We don't even speak of progress any longer, but rather of 'innovation.

When the landlord, annuitant, or monied man, has a greater revenue than what he judges sufficient to maintain his own family, he employs either the whole or a part of the surplus in maintaining one or more menial servants. Increase this surplus, and he will naturally increase the number of those servants.

A great stock, though with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to see that things could genuinely turn out badly and that we are invested enough to care.

People find money for the things they value. They do not find money for things they don't value. It's as simple as that. All else is excuse, distraction, complication, and smoke and mirrors.

What's more, the only available economic upside comes from making your product or service more desirable by improving its quality, and you can't do that by reducing the money you spend designing or programming

Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.

Madoff was not inhumanly monstrous. He was monstrously human. He was greedy for money and praise, arrogantly sure of his own capacity to pull it off, smugly dismissive of skeptics—just like anyone who mortgaged the house to invest in tech stocks, or tapped the off-limits college fund to gamble on a new business, or put all the retirement savings into a hedge fund they didn't understand, or cheated a little on the tax return or the expense account or the spouse.

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet,