Quotes About Investment

Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

I think China represents huge opportunities for Europe.

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Boris isn't known for his fashion credentials, but he knows what it represents - in London it's about creativity. That's why we invest in London Fashion Week each season.

I grew up a big baseball fan. I thought I knew a lot about the game, but I didn't realise that all these American Major League Baseball teams have their own private academies in the Dominican Republic to find good players and bring them over to make money for their teams.

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

Any ICO going forward that doesn't use a 'Ticketmaster-style' queueing engine is clearly trying to ruin the ecosystem.

I'm committed to creating an ideal environment for commerce and letting the world know that Alabama is open for business.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.

We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.