Quotes About Investment

Norton Simon had lots of money and believed that the $2 million investment to launch a Halston perfume was more than worth the gamble. 'Of course, it wasn't my two million,' Halston said. 'It was just my name, which is worth a hell of a lot more than two million.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Mark Pincus smelled the social-game opportunity first. He was the guy who, with Reid Hoffman, had been part of the angel investment that, in his words, was like winning lotto. In late 2006, Matt Cohler tipped him off that Facebook was going to launch a platform and was looking for entrepreneurs to come up with apps. We don't want any money from you, he told Pincus. Just build cool stuff and we'll expose you to our traffic.

the quality of the CEO is the top factor in the success of the investment.

Writing characters is like raising kids, only more work—because you have to do everything for them.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else's property.

Her excitement at finally landing this choice morsel was concealed behind her urbane talk of investment. For over a year, she would have given two of her best operatives in exchange for Zambia Crevecoeur, but the boy had been so awkward, resisting all her proud, veiled offers of employment to suffer starvation in the name of autonomy.

The total cost of the Federal Arts Project was only $23 million. Many of these paintings, sculptures and prints were given to museums, courthouses, public buildings. . .. I think that today those in museums alone are worth about $100 million.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure . . . buying stock in other people's businesses.

Buying a hive of bees is, in some ways, like buying an Irish Setter puppy: it changes one's life. But having two, or even three, hives of bees is not like having two or three Irish Setter puppies. The first hive is a Big Deal. The additional ones are not.

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

Guys are a lot like kitchen floors – lay 'em right the first time and you can walk all over them for years.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

got a return on his investment of almost two votes per gallon.

I liked the so-called Volcker Rule. I would have separated investment banking and commercial, deposit banking, as we did under the Glass-Steagal Act. I would have brought back Glass-Steagal.

My father fought for me to play football. He never had to make me shinpads, but it was a lot of money to send to me to a soccer school. And to provide boots and things.

Pro wrestling is a different animal than pro football and pro soccer. There is going to be a lot of money going out before the bulk of the money can come back in.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.