Quotes About Investment

The "money game" we still call investment management evolved in recent decades from a winner's game to a loser's game because a basic change occurred in the investment environment: The market came to be overwhelmingly dominated by investment professionals—all knowing the same superb information, having huge computer power, and striving to win by outperforming the market they collectively completely dominate.

A dearth of fiduciaries willing to place client interests foremost forces individuals to take responsibility for their investment portfolios. In the profit-motivated world of Wall Street, fiduciary responsibility takes a backseat to self-interest. What benefits the stockbroker (commissions), the mutual fund manager (large pools of assets), and the financial advisor (high fees) injures the investor. When profit motive meets fiduciary responsibility, profits win and investors lose. Understand

Investment management, as traditionally practiced, is based on a single core belief: Investors can beat the market and superior managers will beat the market.

In the mean time, innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere. They soon received the name of Bubbles, the most appropriate that imagination could devise.

Some in clandestine companies combine; Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line; With air and empty names beguile the town, And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down; Divide the empty nothing into shares, And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

Waaant equity, hisses the alien intruder. You can't be Pamela Macx, says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobster-woman-thing. She's in a nunnery in Armenia or something. You pulled that out of Glashwiecz's memories - he worked for her, didn't he? Claws go snicker-snack before his face. Investment partnership! screeches the harridan. Seat on the board! Eat brains for breakfast! It lurches sideways, trying to get past his guard.

scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.

Everything – the entire 400-megabuck investment, ten years of Company black operations – depends on what happens in the next few hours.

The finest studies are like the finest of anything else: They cost big bucks.

were a lot of bad actors). Let's start at the bottom: too many people borrowed too much money to buy real estate.

The typical real estate purchase was far more leveraged than the stocks purchased on margin in the run up to the 1929 crash. Putting 5 percent down on a house means the other 95 percent is borrowed.

I won $2 playing the lotto today. And I might win $2 again tomorrow. But if I buy thousands of $1 lottery tickets, each with an expected payout of $.56, then it becomes a near mathematical certainty that I will lose money.

By the time I've spent $1 million on tickets, I'm going to end up with something strikingly close to $560,000.

The law of large numbers explains why casinos always make money in the long run.

The decision tree lets you know that your expected payoff is far higher than what you are being asked to invest.

On the other hand, the most likely outcome, meaning the one that will happen most often, is that the company will not discover a cure for baldness and you will get only $250,000 back.

The law of large numbers suggests that an investment firm, or a rich individual like Warren Buffet, should seek out hundreds of opportunities like this with uncertain outcomes but attractive expected returns. Some will work; many won't. On average, these investors will make a lot of money, just like an insurance company or a casino.

Something really wacky happens when rice bankers start loaning out other people's capital: money is created.

En 2011, algunos inversores de capital riesgo se unieron para invertir 10 millones de dólares cada uno en Kickstarter, MakerBot (una empresa de hardware de código abierto que fabrica impresoras 3-D) y Shapeways, un servicio de impresión 3-D, así como 23 millones en Quirky, otro mercado Maker[11]

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

Here's the truth that everyone misses - you must not invest in a guy based on how much you like him. You have to invest in a guy based on how much he invests in you.

If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.

I'm running for Congress to represent Missouri's 1st because we need leadership that is truly invested in helping us become stronger and safer. I'm running because I have a commitment to every member of my community.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.