Quotes About Investment

Then it dropped 400 points on a single trade.

He said that the first holders were not simply noble victims, nor were the current buyers simply predatory speculators. The original investors had gotten cash when they wanted it and had shown little faith in the country's future. Speculators, meanwhile, had hazarded their money and should be rewarded for the risk.

its dividend was halved.

these affairs consumed less of Pierpont's time and interest than his true aphrodisiac—art collecting.

First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.

Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.

If somebody's got money outside of his salary, it shows up somewhere.

Ten bucks a day, just for clothes, made no sense at all until you figured a washing machine cost four hundred and a dryer another three and the basement to put them in implied a house which cost at least a hundred grand to buy and then tens of thousands a year in taxes and maintenance and insurance and associated bullshit. Then ten bucks a day for clothes suddenly made all the sense in the world.

the smart money never bets on the DoD having gotten exactly what it paid for. The

Owen tried to convince fellow capitalists that investing in people could produce a greater return than investments in machinery. But the business world dismissed him as a wild radical whose ideas would harm the people he wanted to help (O'Toole, 1995). Owen was at least 100 years ahead of his time.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

If capitalism is to work in the long run, it must make investments that are not in any particular individual's immediate self-interest but are in the human community's long-run self-interest (p. 308).

I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife.

All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.