Quotes About Investment

Think of it—all ours, to do as we like with, for as Harold Skimpole so rightly observes, £60 saved is £60 gained, and I'd reckoned on spending it all.

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

buck fifty to make

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Irrational exuberance

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

John Jacob Astor succeeded in amassing America's biggest fortune by trading in the furs of beavers, otters, muskrats, and bears (though he wisely used some of the money he made from hunting in America's great wilderness to buy real estate in Manhattan).

Slave owners invested a growing amount of capital in their slaves: by 1861, almost half the total value of the South's capital assets was in the "value of negroes.

My fee represents my contribution to this project with a dramatic return on investment for you and equitable compensation for me.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

talked into a stupid investment in exactly the thing he disapproved of. He was like that: easily persuaded against his

Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.

I expect Congress to continue to work on that, to secure the border, to invest in smart technology, and in personnel that makes a difference there.

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.