Quotes About Investment

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants.

In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

To me, the one thing you should splurge on, if you only have a certain amount of money to spend, is your bed because you spend about 30 percent of your life in bed, and you should be comfortable, and you should wake up every day just feeling good.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

Head Start has a proven track-record of success in Central Virginia, and millions of Americans have walked through its doors and benefited from the foundation it provides.

Johnny Walker is the man the UFC wants to win, they're investing in him, they want him to get to the top and my job is to stop that from happening.

Scott Walker has repeatedly failed to address our crumbling bridges and highways, which rank as some of the worst in the country, forcing communities to tax themselves even more to pay for basic road maintenance.

If you discourage saving and investment, that means you're walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You're discouraging good job creation and job growth.

Shilpa pointed out how there a huge market for gold amongst the average Indian, who can't afford it thanks to the exorbitant rates. Therefore we came up with this systematic plan that allows people from all walks of society to invest in gold starting at just Rs 50!

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

I'm not stupid - if you buy one of the world's best goalkeepers, it's not to keep him on the bench.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.

The best way I can think of to give back is to ensure that every Hoosier family enjoys a better future.