Quotes About Investment

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time'.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.