Quotes About Investment

When a venture capitalist looks for "the next big thing," the risk of missing the next Google or Facebook is far more important than the risk of making a modest investment in a start-up that ultimately fails.

The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects. I

costs are not losses.

In another paper, titled "Boys Will Be Boys," they showed that men acted on their useless ideas significantly more often than women, and that as a result women achieved better investment results than men.

investment decisions. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable

We are not merely spectators of the world but investors in it

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy. Rather

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

five-hundred-gram gold ingots.

Or, as Durand liked to describe it, he managed the acquisition of paintings that were not technically for sale.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

What, then, is the future of the $5 trillion global oil and gas industry that supplies almost 60 percent of world energy? The industry will continue to need to find and develop another three to five billion barrels a year just to make up for the natural decline in oil fields, which happens after a field has been in production for some time. The International Energy Agency estimates that over $20 trillion of investment in oil and gas development will be required over the next two decades.

But with the new sanctions, the Western companies had to drop out. As the Russian engineer observed, Western companies were "afraid to touch the Bazhenov as if it were a fire."9

The war against Syria was "one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the CIA," the New York Times revealed. The CIA invested more than $1 billion in Operation Timber Sycamore, "one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency's program arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s.

Whatever you sow into God's kingdom, it may leave your hand, but it will never leave your life.

There is no substitute for time. Giving time is giving life to others.

Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and invest, to innovate and adopt new technologies, and so on. It is the political process that determines what economic institutions people live under, and it is the political institutions that determine how this process works.

A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive to undertake investments and innovations.

Now $12 on the $100 for money to be paid back regularly over half a year works out to something like forty-eight per cent real interest.

For Facebook and Twitter, we have endless amounts of money, But we haven't found anything there."

Google of course respects us as an advertiser," said Huston, whose company accounts for about 3 percent of Google's ad revenue. "They'd like to get more of my money."

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Live like no else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow.