Quotes About Investment

We love renovating spaces to maximize a home's equity.

The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke.

Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me.

It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others.

A relationship that is not actively nurtured dies out eventually, I told myself. Or does it?

Love is all, what you put into it.!

When the value of a relation gets lower than the amount of thought and time needed to maintain or resurrect them, It withers away.

You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is investing in that moment in the way that you can really feel the passion.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

The thrifty and prudent are on the way to riches, for while they spend wisely they save carefully, and gradually enlarge their spheres as their growing means allow.

Everything worth having has a definite price.

There is no such thing as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!

Tell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated, often discredited; perhaps this is why we get so little from our marvellous opportunity in public schools.

Competent "brains," if effectively marketed, represent a much more desirable form of capital than that which is required to conduct a business dealing in commodities, because "brains" are a form of capital which cannot be permanently depreciated through depressions, nor can this form of capital be stolen or spent

LACK OF CAPITAL. This is a common cause of failure among those who start out in business for the first time, without sufficient reserve of capital to absorb the shock of their mistakes, and to carry them over until they have established a REPUTATION.

brains" are a form of capital which cannot be permanently depreciated through depressions, nor can this form of capital be stolen or spent.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don't have—in their portfolio.

Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

what you learn from the intensity and the focus you had when under the influence of risk stays with you. You may lose the sharpness, but nobody can take away what you've learned. This is the principal reason I am now fighting the conventional educational system, made by dweebs for dweebs. Many kids would learn to love mathematics if they had some investment in it, and, more crucially, they would build an instinct to spot its misapplications.

Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.