Quotes About Investment

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

personal involvement offers the best way to determine if our charitable investments are being put to good use.

Šanca je jediná vec, ktorú si nekúpite. Musíte za ?u zaplati?, zaplati? životom, ?asom, úsilím. ?as nemí?ate, platíte ním.

ane hunder pundis will do mair presently to the said work nor ane thousand pundis will do quhen it is fallin downe

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Reach deep into your wallet and buy a decent mule.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts?

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves," Buffett says. "But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

One dollar at compound interest, at twenty-four per cent., for one hundred years, would produce a sum equal to our national debt. Interest eats night and day, and the more it eats the hungrier it grows. The farmer in debt, lying awake at night, can, if he listens, hear it gnaw. If he owes nothing, he can hear his corn grow. Get out of debt as soon as you possibly can. You have supported idle avarice and lazy economy long enough.

They like the tax because they believe, correctly, that it will stimulate much needed savings and investment. But it's an even better policy instrument than they think.

As Warren Buffett once said, "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Hire people you know you don't need now, but you think you might need later.

Most public companies spend less than 2 percent of their annual budgets on R&D.

It's sound social psychology because, as I wrote in The No Asshole Rule, "The more time and effort that people put into anything—no matter how useless, dysfunctional, or downright stupid it might be—the harder it is for them to walk away, be it a bad investment, a destructive relationship, an exploitive job, or a workplace filled with browbeaters, bullies, and bastards.

It is far cheaper to build schoolhouses than prisons, and it is much better to have scholars than convicts.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

If the stock market continues to advance, we know that inequality will increase, for capital gains on equities accrue disproportionately to the top income brackets.