Quotes About Investment

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

Everything in life has its price.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

Life insurance is a commodity.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

also learned from my losing silver investment that when the interests of the salesmen and promoters differ from those of the client, the client had better look out for himself. This is the well-known agency problem in economics, where the interest of the agents or managers don't coincide with those of the principals, or owners. Shareholders of companies that have been pillaged by self-serving CEOs and boards of directors are painfully familiar with this.

I also learned from my losing silver investment that when the interests of the salesmen and promoters differ from those of the client, the client had better look out for himself. This is the well-known agency problem in economics, where the interest of the agents or managers don't coincide with those of the principals, or owners.

This phenomenon has been called the wisdom of crowds. But like most simplifications, this has a flip side, as in the Madoff case. Here there were just two answers, fraudster or investment genius. The crowd voted for investment genius and got it wrong. I call the flip side to the wisdom of crowds the lunacy of lemmings.

The problem was that the issuers of CDSs could issue them with no collateral other than their "full faith and credit," meaning that if their bets lost they might not have the money to pay.

Mathematically, interruptions didn't matter, because my lifetime of playing was just one long series of hands, and chopping it into sessions and playing them at various times and in various casinos should not affect my edge, nor the long-run amount I could expect to win. This principle applies in both gambling and investing.

This plan, of betting only at a level at which I was emotionally comfortable and not advancing until I was ready, enabled me to play my system with a calm and disciplined accuracy. This lesson from the blackjack tables would prove invaluable throughout my investment lifetime as the stakes grew ever larger. Eddie

The list of issues goes on, the point being that hedge fund investors don't have much protection and that the most important single thing to check before investing is the honesty, ethics, and character of the operators.