Quotes About Investment

I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

Seed stage is an investment area that is really important for early stage startups. It feels like there is a need for trusted, experienced people to work with and to guide startups at this level.

A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this tied the hands of countries the market hasn't always trusted, which also helped them borrow at low rates.

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

We have moved from treating funds as investment trusts designed to serve their owner-beneficiaries to treating funds as consumer products, designed to attract the largest possible assets. This new approach has ill-served the interests of fund shareholders.

Every investor around the world wants to invest in U.S. markets because they're regulated and they're licensed. They're trustworthy; they have confidence. If you take that away, the global economy will take a hit like nothing else. We want to create that for Bitcoin.

In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

The truth is that you can't really tell how anybody's doing in the tech business for at least five or 10 years.

The truth is that development of public transport facilities needs government funding or cheap loans.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago's teens.

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; "I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.