Quotes About Investment

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

Invest time, don't spend it.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

day by day you have to give the work before you all the best stuff you have, not saving up for later projects. If you give freely, there will always be more.

Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?" she asked. "And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying?

What we do not pay for in some way, unfortunately we tend not to regard in its true worth." She smiled to soften the words a little. Jemima frowned. "Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?" she asked. "And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying?

It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing - empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been invested in those children; who could believe how briefly they'd been with her.

Equipping is more about quality than quantity. It's much better to work with a few who really get it than a bunch who only get it halfway.

Edward Crosby Johnson II, who in the 1950s established Fidelity as a dominant investment firm and made the same point in his own way: "The market is like a beautiful woman—endlessly fascinating, endlessly complex, always changing, always mystifying. I have been absorbed and immersed since 1924 and I know this is no science. It is an art…. It is personal intuition.

Tom Perkins's dictums: you succeed in venture capital by backing the right deals, not by haggling over valuations.

Horsley Bridge is an investment company with stakes in venture funds that backed 7,000 startups between 1985 and 2014.

Thus, even though VC-backed firms accounted for 47 percent of IPOs, they accounted for 76 percent of the market value at the end of the study. They also accounted for fully 89 percent of R&D spending.[35

The six other members of the Traitorous Eight bought shares, and Robert Noyce saw to it that his small alma mater, Grinnell College, was invited to participate.