Quotes About Investment

I'm the king of debt.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

GDP is a function of capital, labour and how productively you use both.

My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community, you invest more. Because that's the Labour way.

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

EMPLOYEES ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET" (OR ARE THEY?)

chant: "We need a _____ floppy; We need a _____ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the

Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.

When we live generously, joy is ours because we invest more in people than possessions.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

With the uncertainties of the great geopolitical shifts of the twenty-first century such as climate change, global financial upheaval, the increasing number of people over sixty and the prospect of diminishing state guarantees over provision for our general health or our later years, understanding how to strengthen that (our) relationship could be the best investment policy of our lives.

That is why a house is not something that you passively 'have', it is something that you 'do', something that you 'work on'

Business effectively invests in political candidates and expects a return on that investment in the form of favourable policies.

economy, the priority of the Depression era.55 Imagine, then, if a demurrage-bearing currency could be designed so that, instead of boosting consumption today, it boosted regenerative investments in tomorrow. It would transform the landscape of financial expectations: in essence, the search for gain would be replaced by the search to maintain value.

From 1981 to 1991, the average return on ten-year Treasury bills was 10.4 per cent; the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 12.9 per cent; and the average return on so-called junk bonds was 14.1 per cent.

It wasn't until five years after the first 360 hardware was introduced in 1964 that all of its software ran well. By then, IBM had spent nearly as much writing the software as designing the hardware. This astonished the company's managers and vividly highlighted "the greatest impediment to advances in computer technology," the problem of managing large software projects. At

Negotiation scholars have observed this phenomenon so often we have a name for it: "escalation of commitment." People lose sight of their real goals in competitive situations and pay far too much money, spend too much time, or sacrifice too many other interests for the privilege of saying they have won.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Emily was five months pregnant when she decided to open the bookstore. Friendship didn't have one, and it would be a way for Emily to read more and farm less. She sold off her farm equipment at a 50 percent loss and she rented out her unused land to Alabaster. Emily allocated most of her remaining gold to the construction of a small building in town. She named the store Friendship Books.

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.