Quotes About Investment

They were often convoluted, and unless it was a state-of-the-art facility, they'd layer new systems on top of the old, ultimately spending more to force everything to work, rather than using that money on the front end to get a new, better system that would save time and money in the future.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

People liked to think of beauty as some natural gift, but Savine firmly believed that just about anyone could be beautiful, if they worked hard at it and spent enough money. It was merely a question of emphasising the good, disguising the bad and painfully squeezing the average into the most impressive configuration. Very much like business, really.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

I'd netted a bachelor's in English from Boston University, but it had done less for me, in strictly financial terms, than the eight-week course that earned me a commercial driver's license.

The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

It takes time to save time.

The strategy of putting all your eggs in one basket and watching that basket is less risky than you might think.

In short, companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.

Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like Mr. Market was the secret to making safe and reliable investment profits.

Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.

companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.

When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment strategy: 1. What is the risk of losing money following that strategy over the long term? 2. What is the risk that your chosen strategy will perform worse than alternative strategies over the long term?

Maybe you've invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed?

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.