Quotes About Investment

Movies are an expensive business.

In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only does it create jobs once: the investment creates jobs multiple times.

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.

Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and it was just extra. Everything was just extra and over did. Now, people are being as creative as they were but they're not spending $500,000 or a million on a video.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own capital. It's capitalism at work, where the rewards tend to go to the managers rather than the investors.

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

I am selective about what I give my time to.

I have always spent my time more preciously than my money.

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

I bought a Cartier nail bracelet to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my blog. It's an investment piece, but it's simple enough to wear every day, and it's something that will last forever.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.

A correction is a great time to determine what are our high conviction names.

I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.