Quotes About Investment

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

If there is one thing that marks families with money over the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4 500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

This is when I let each girl in on secret: It can be yours. No different from falling in love with a song, one may fall in love with a work of art and claim it as one's own. Ownership does not come free. One must spend time with it; visit at different times of the day or evening; and bring to it one's full attention. The investment will be repaid as one discovers something new with each viewing... [...] Stay awhile. Spend some time with it. Give it a proper name: Yours.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

more than a decade of human labor per barrel.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.

No, the key takeaway, I now realize, is to strike the right balance between spending on the present (and only on what you value) and saving smartly for the future.

Buy the car you want....buy the best car you can afford!

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.

I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive; it's the high price of mediocrity.

Whenever I had a couple of bucks it was always so little I was ashamed to send it home, so I would give it to Lester Young to invest. I hoped he could shoot enough dice to parlay it into a bill big enough I didn't have to feel ashamed to send home.

Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.

People go into debt when they judge it beneficial to borrow money against their future earnings. Few can afford to buy a house outright, but many consider it worthwhile to take out a loan, which they will service and pay off over time, for the immediate privilege of living and investing in a house.

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.