Quotes About Investment

China and India have been striking examples of poor countries whose abandonment of severe international trade and investment restrictions led to dramatic increases in their economic growth rates, which in turn led to tens of millions of their citizens rising out of poverty.

Eventually, however, the fact that many once-poor places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore achieved prosperity through freer international trade and investment became so blatant and so widely known that, by the end of the twentieth century, the governments of many other countries began abandoning their zero-sum view of economic transactions.

Confiscating physical wealth for the purpose of redistribution is confiscating something that will be used up over time, and cannot be replaced without the human capital that created it. Nor is human

Contrary to various economic theories of imperialism, Africa was not a major outlet for European investment or exports.

More generally, confidence that an investment of labor and resources could claim its reward-whether at harvest time or when dividends were issued years later-has been crucial to the economic efforts which create national prosperity.

For most of the period of the boom, only Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch were recognized by the SEC. It was not the particular choices of rating-agencies selected by the SEC that is in question but the policy of giving those agencies a captive market.

Britain's earlier development of strong and widespread labor unions, which were able to restrict the application of new technology, both directly and by appropriating a sufficient share of technology's economic benefits to reduce the incentives for further technological investment.

Because immobility is the key to exploitation, fixed capital, like labor, can also be exploited in the short term. And, since some capital goods can last longer than the average life span of a worker, once a hydroelectric plant has been built, both local taxes and local unions can absorb much of its profits, to the point of making very difficult that someone is ever willing to build another hydroelectric plant in that jurisdiction.

La asunción de riesgos es la leche materna del capitalismo. The Wall Street Journal

El sistema económico del libre mercado es comúnmente considerado un sistema de lucro, pero en realidad se trata de un sistema de ganancias y pérdidas, y las pérdidas son tan importantes como el lucro para la eficiencia de la economía, porque informan a los productores de lo que deben dejar de hacer, de lo que deben dejar de producir, de dónde deben dejar de asignar recursos, de en qué deben dejar de invertir.

cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee after many days'.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson

For 42 years, I've been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience, education, and training. And on January 15th, the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, 'We put our love where we have put our labor.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

Rich and very rich people have developed the discipline of delayed gratification. Millionaires do today what others don't, so they can have tomorrow what others won't.

A network functions precisely because there's recognition of mutual need. There's an implicit understanding that investing time and energy in building personal relationships with the right people will pay dividends. The majority of "one percenters" are in that top stratum because they understand this dynamic—because, in fact, they themselves used the power of their network of contacts and friends to arrive at their present station.

He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that can be cut into only so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him. I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles—the more you work them, the stronger they become.

The business end of a six-gun don't pay no interest.

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.