Quotes About Investment

Any money we've lost is operational expense; any investment that we can sell is inventory.

Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell.

If we cut our batch sizes in half, then I guess that at any one time we'd have half the work-in-process on the floor. I guess that means we'd only need half the investment in work-in-process to keep the plant working. If we could work it out with our vendors, we could conceivably cut all our inventories in half, and by cutting our inventories in half, we reduce the amount of cash tied up at any one time, which eases the pressure on cash flow.

I hope you'll forgive me for ruining the symmetry of your genocide. I was invested in being discreet.

in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

the United States, led by Wall Street, was becoming entangled financially in the fate of the Entente. Defeat of France, Britain, and Russia could mean their default on their debts; default by the Entente would almost certainly mean bankruptcy for America's leading investment firms, not to mention the corporations that depended on the growing transatlantic business between the United States, the Allies, and their chief entrepôt, the port of London.

their reliance on a loyal circle of uncles and aunts, nephews and sons-in-law, to pool capital and lay off risk.

Tobacco Lords' success lay in their balance sheets: their ability to summon up capital from a wide variety of sources, while ruthlessly cutting costs. Investment money for ships, warehouses, and inventories (since Scottish firms, unlike their English rivals, bought the tobacco from planters outright instead of selling it abroad on commission) came from a wide variety of sources, including banks set up to finance the trade.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…

Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

Loving is never a waste of time.

Growth requires reinvestment.

A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.

The intrinsic value of an asset is determined by the cash flows you expect that asset to generate over its life and how uncertain you feel about these cash flows.

In the intrinsic valuation chapter, we observed that the value of a firm is a function of three variables—its capacity to generate cash flows, its expected growth in these cash flows, and the uncertainty associated with these cash flows.

pero si compras un activo financiero lo haces por los flujos de caja que esperas recibir.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy.

Don't give your best to people who don't appreciate it.