Quotes About Investment

Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people.

Trust in time rather than timing.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

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

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

If a relationship is on-and-off within the first year, that's an immediate sign you are wasting your time.

when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Patience is when you don't eat your egg only to let it turn into a chicken and pay higher dividends

Do you always throw your money away like this?" "Only when I'm in love

It is necessary to keep in mind both the trustfulness born of desperation, and the power we invest in the things we hold dear.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

For the canny and the farsighted, vast deficits also create vast opportunities.