Quotes About Investment

If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.

Owners and chairmen prefer to buy in talent as investments against relegation at one end of the table, or to attain the holy grail of European football at the top end.

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.

The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.

I'm passionate about owning a football team in my hometown.

I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish thing about owning land, giving you a bit of security.

I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.

Anyone who owns a few houses, put their own cold cash in them, and has money in the bank will tell you going through a divorce can be a full-time job of trying to hang on to what you worked your whole life for.

Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.

When a state offers your company an attractive package of incentives to relocate, you have to look at it, and if it significantly boosts your bottom line, you have to take it or answer to your investors.

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan - and they were expensive, too.

I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they cost a serious amount of money.

I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for £250.