Quotes About Investment

In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end of time. Today most Microsoft applications sell in the $300 to $500 range, ten years from now they may cost thousands each.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

tuition, lots of fund-raising and often

In for a penny, in for a pound

how much of their own money teachers spent on their students.

Nothing you buy will make you feel as good as money in the bank.

A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

Marriage is an economic proposition.

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

I loaned him the first money he invested in it and I helped him all along.

Harper had fundamentally miscalculated in approaching Rockefeller for money.

reassure worried investors

For instance, in 1886, he pledged $30,000 to Morehouse, hoping that it would prove the catalyst for a $150,000 fund drive.

if they refrained from rate-cutting and cutthroat competition, the financiers would stop underwriting competing railways.

the leading men would receive no salary but would profit solely from the appreciation of their shares and rising dividends—which Rockefeller thought a more potent stimulus to work.

He held $32.3 million in Morgan capital, which was the bank's major cushion.

that the reason why Morgan & Co. are so insistent on increasing the dividend from 4 to 6% is to enable them to sell out their stocks at a very high figure on the basis of the increased dividend.

But few companies followed the lead of Clark, Payne and invested in Standard Oil instead of taking payment.

He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: "I have ways of making money you know nothing about.

As the Lord's fiduciary, he was responsible for seeing the money well invested.