Quotes About Investment

every incident is a learning opportunity, an unplanned investment that was made without our consent.

creating application and infrastructure telemetry to be one of the highest return investments we've made. In

Without automated testing, the more code we write, the more money it takes for us to test.

When r&d capital is locked up as wip for more than a year, not returning cash back to the business, it becomes almost impossible to pay back the business,

John Allspaw says, every incident is a learning opportunity, an unplanned investment that was made without our consent.

existing ones. At the same time, it needs to separate its revenue performance activities from its enabling investments, focusing the former on delivering results based on what the latter have helped to seed and till. As the following diagram indicates, these two divisions result in four zones of management activity, each aligned with one, and only one, investment horizon, each demanding a different style of leadership to achieve those ends.

Ironically Britain claimed the whole continent simply in order to claim a few isolated harbours astride trade routes. It was like a speculator who, buying a huge wasteland flanking a highway because it had a few fine sites for road cafes and filling stations, found later that much of the land was fertile and productive.

a generous backer of your town's museums, schools and churches.

He owned one pair of shiny black shoes that he resoled every two years for twenty years.

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

Japan will need to foster deep

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

If the government controls, guarantees, channels, or directs investment, it is not capitalism. Pivotal to the investment process is interest rates. For entrepreneurs to control capital, interest rates must reflect its real cost rather than merely the cost of printing money. Otherwise the money printers will dominate investment.

much of Silicon Valley's investment has gone to some eighty "unicorns," with valuations over a billion dollars, which have shunned the overregulated U.S. public market. This is a bizarre and unsustainable situation. Venture capital cannot function without liquidity events. Unless the United States follows China and begins to deregulate its public companies, China will soon take the lead in venture capital as well. The

And you'll put a deposit on the house tomorrow?

After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.

It was less respectable because less immediately useful; and it was poorly financed since it was less profitable.

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent. Morgana aroused mixed feelings of fascination

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

Then borrow it, that's what banks are for. Why should we risk our own money if we can use someone else's?" Paulina replied, as she always did in such cases.

nadie se hace rico en un empleo ni invirtiendo con prudencia; el futuro es de los audaces.

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.