Quotes About Investment

Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.

There is no such thing as guaranteed high investment returns. Be wary of anyone who promises that you will receive a high rate of return on your investment with little or no risk.

If you've invested money in buying a piece, you don't want it to just disintegrate. We all have that first wash anxiety, when that great t-shirt you've just bought shrinks away to nothing.

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

some things cost more than you realize

Finance is not just about lending, it is about recovering loans also.

firms do not borrow as much to invest when rates are higher and individuals stop buying durable goods against credit and, instead, turn to save. Lower demand growth leads to a better match between demand and supply, and thus lower inflation for the goods being produced.

a dollar's worth of physical capital in India would produce 58 times the returns available in the United States. Global financial markets, he argued, could not be so blind as to ignore these enormous differences in returns, even taking into account the greater risk of investing in India.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped "If you want to build a great city, create a great university and wait 200 years."11

You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

the company that executes well will have the confidence, speed, and resources to move fast as new opportunities emerge. It will also have credibility as a partner, supplier, and investment of choice, compounding its advantage as it positions itself for growth.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because the companies that are not going to survive die before the best performers begin to shine and pull the value of the portfolio up with them. That,

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

El trabajo duro es como el interés compuesto de los bancos. La recompensa se acumula más rápido.

Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.