Quotes About Investment

in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.

Žinoma, j?s geriau sutvarkytum?te kambar? už savo vaik?, ta?iau jums kur kas svarbiau išmokyti vaik? tvarkos. Mokymas užima daug laiko, ta?iau sugaištas laikas ateityje atsipirks šimteriopai.

Competition is fierce; survival is at stake. The need to produce today is today's reality and represents the demands of capital, but the real mantra of success is sustainability and growth. You may be able to meet your quarterly numbers, but the real question is, are you making the necessary investment that will sustain and increase that success one, five, and ten years from now?

Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

The decreasing principal has decreasing power to produce interest or income.

by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This

In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset—a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets.

Our most important financial asset is our own capacity to earn. If we don't continually invest in improving our own PC, we severely limit our options. We're locked into our present situation, running scared of our corporation or our boss's opinion of us, economically dependent

If we don't continually invest in improving our own PC, we severely limit our options. We're locked into our present situation

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. We are the instruments of our own performance, and to be effective, we need to recognize the importance of taking time regularly to sharpen the saw in all four ways.

Sin una matemática sólida, los negocios se convierten en un costoso juego de azar en el que uno apuesta su propio dinero y también el ajeno.

El atractivo del riesgo? Eso es para el setenta por ciento que no llega a los tres años en el mercado, no para mí.

There's a good usability principle right there: If something requires a large investment of time—or looks like it will—it's less likely to be used.

China had become America's banker for a simple reason. The United States needed ever-increasing infusions of cash.

Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.

That is the idea behind a prize-linked savings (PLS) account.

Product people are the stewards or guides who serve to ensure that these products, as investment assets, are tended to and nurtured to produce returns.

at the helm of the General Board of Health, Chadwick helped solidify, if not outright invent, an ensemble of categories that we now take for granted: that the state should directly engage in protecting the health and well-being of its citizens, particularly the poorest among them; that a centralized bureaucracy of experts can solve societal problems that free markets either exacerbate or ignore; that public-health issues often require massive state investment in infrastructure or prevention.

We can make choices that leave us unhappy in the short term but fulfilled over the course of a life, such as raising a child, writing a book, or fighting for a worthy cause.

A dollar tomorrow really is worth less than a dollar today (even if we assume there is no inflation), and interest is the price we put on the difference.

The first countries that made the Great Escape from universal poverty in the 19th century, and the countries that have grown the fastest ever since, are the countries that educated their children most intensely.5

Studies that assess education at Time 1 and wealth at Time 2, holding all else constant, suggest that investing in education really does make countries richer. At least it does if the education is secular and rationalistic.

loss aversion, the sunk-cost fallacy, and throwing good money after bad, is patently irrational, but it is surprisingly pervasive in human decision-making.