Quotes About Investment

At any given point in the life of a project, the only two things that matter are the amount of effort and resources required to complete the project, and the present value of the cash flows that the project will generate. As harsh as this may seem, the energy and effort already invested in the project are irrelevant. Goals and strategies change, and sometimes the most prudent course of action is to cut your losses and to move on to more value-creating projects.

An engineer's skills are like the blade of a knife: you may spend tens of thousands of dollars to find engineers with the sharpest skills for your team, but if you "use" that knife for years without sharpening it, you will wind up with a dull knife that is inefficient, and in some cases useless.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

For autocrats, money spent on people—like infants and little children—who are years away from contributing to the economy is money wasted. Resources should instead be focused on those who help the ruler stay in power now, not those who might be valuable in the distant future.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Get money--but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return.

There is no return on an investment in the relationship's emotional corpse. The greatest possible return comes from investment in yourself.

For many organizations, security comes down to basic economics. If the cost of security is less than the likely cost of losses due to lack of security, security wins. If the cost of security is more than the likely cost of losses, accept the losses.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investment bankers shouted and cursed around him, he began dictating

Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible. —Arnold Kling, "College Customers vs. Suppliers"41

Government heavily subsidizes education. In 2011, U.S. federal, state, and local governments spent almost a trillion dollars on it.5 The simplest way to get less education, then, is to cut the subsidies.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth.

We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports. Clearly our kisses fell flat. We have done well with a couple of princes -- but they were princes when purchased. At least our kisses didn't turn them into toads. And, finally, we have occasionally been quite successful in purchasing fractional interests in easily-identifiable princes at toad-like prices.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

A capitalist economy cannot be maintained, however, if it oscillates between threats of an imminent collapse of asset values and employment and threats of accelerating inflation and rampant speculation, especially if the threats are sometimes realized. If the market mechanism is to function well, we must arrange to constrain the uncertainty due to business cycles so that the expectations that guide investment can reflect a vision of tranquil progress.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

However that may be, it is clear that he could have found many investments more savoury than prostitution, if he had not been tempted by the by-product of unlimited women for his personal use. Fate rebuked him with terrifying swiftness.

He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don't invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don't invest in them, we lose.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.