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Quotes About Investment

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
~ John Templeton
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
~ Honore de Balzac
True ownership of anything requires time.
~ Barbara Holland
Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.
~ Brian Tracy
We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?
~ Bruce Berkowitz
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
~ Charlie Munger
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
~ Damien Hirst
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
~ Denis Waitley
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
~ Mark Twain
When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.
~ Peter Lynch
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?
~ John C. Bogle
I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.
~ John James Cowperthwaite
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.
~ Warren Buffett
Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
~ Ann Romney
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!
~ Babatunde Osotimehin
Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.
~ Barack Obama
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
~ Bernard Ebbers
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
~ Bill Gates
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
~ Billy Graham
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.
~ David Maister
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies
~ Marc Andreessen
A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
~ Mitt Romney