Quotes About Investment

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Hearing protection is a sound investment.

The ski bum trades security for face shots, the future for the moment. Considering how hollow the promise of a corporate career has become, who can say the ski bum is not the wiser investor in his or her youth?

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.

A steady job and a mutual fund is still the best defense against social security.

You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in sixty years.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good.

Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

As we saw earlier, over half of UK ordinary shares are owned by "rest of the world" investors. The notion of "social responsibility" applies to a particular society, and it is not clear that overseas shareholders have a long-term commitment to the country in which they are investing.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Abbiatico and Salvinelli," he said. "It cost me thirty grand—or my mother, anyway.

Fast money? Would you rather get boardwalk on your first roll or would you rather win the game of monopoly?

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.

Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child... won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?

Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country.