Quotes About Investment

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.

At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.

What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.

Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.

I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook the way these great artists that I meet around the world cook, and I'm very, very happy to support them. I invest in restaurants because I love them so much.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

If you ask anybody at Microsoft, could they spend more money, all of them would say yes. They should say that! They should say, 'Yes, I have so many terrific innovative, interesting, awesomely impactful ideas that you have to get me more money.' I love that. I love that energy, and I listen to some really fascinating arguments.

I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.