Quotes About Investment

Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash.

All books are investments (p.134)

When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it—which comes to the same thing—is by writing in it.

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.

Renewables are, in fact, much more reliable than power based on extraction, since those energy models require continuous new inputs to avoid a crash, whereas once the initial investment has been made in renewable energy infrastructure, nature provides the raw materials for free.

while the IMF certainly failed the people of Asia, it did not fail Wall Street - far from it. The hot money may have been spooked by the IMF's drastic measures, but the large investment houses and multinational firms were emboldened...These fun-seeking firms understood that as a result of the IMF's adjustments, pretty much everything in Asia was now up for sale - and the more the market panicked, the more desperate Asian companies would be to sell, pushing their prices through the floor.

We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth.

research in Canada has found that an investment of $1.3 billion (the amount the Canadian government spends on subsidies to oil and gas companies) could create seventeen to twenty thousand jobs in renewable energy, public transit, or energy efficiency—six to eight times as many jobs as that money generates in the oil and gas sector.

It certainly went quicker to throw money away than to make it

If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

greatest public school system in the world. We have invested fabulous sums for fine buildings, we have provided convenient transportation for children living in the rural districts, so they may attend the best schools, but there is one astounding weakness to this marvelous system — it is free! One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money

Life has no bargains. Everything that you get that's worthy of having has a price upon it.

Pessoas que abrem mão de parte de seu tempo livre para fazer cursos raramente ficam na parte de baixo por muito tempo. Fazendo esses cursos, elas abrem caminho para a subida, removem muitos obstáculos do trajeto e atraem o interesse daqueles que têm o poder para ajudá

The moon is a cadaver and a dusty mummy and a damned rotten investment.

El truco está en no juntar las pesetas de tres en tres, sino de tres millones en tres millones

In fact, being the proud new owner of a gold mine seems like a big pain in the neck, frankly.

The lesson for the Intellectual is never to invest so much of yourself in any situation that you are willing to compromise your integrity in order to maintain the illusion. Once that cycle begins, it is nearly impossible to release yourself from it. The Intellectual frees herself from the shadow by knowing who she is at all times and living from her truth.

in 1912, a developer paid the town of Pleasant

If my role in a relationship is to help someone, I become invested in that person's success. I'm nudging someone along their career on a path that I believe is the right one. So, if that path leads to success, it's my success as well.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.