Quotes About Investment

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

Investment in public infrastructure is key to America's greatness and essential to our national security.

In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money from the means of production. Rather, they ignore or rewrite the law—ostensibly put in place to protect the weak from the powerful—to steal from everyone, including their own shareholders. They produce nothing. They make nothing. They only manipulate money.

The investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, Mubadala, became the primary investor

Selling R&D to the government was like taking your venture capital and putting it into a savings account," Noyce declared. "Venturing is venturing; you want to take the risk.

A facility to fabricate the most advanced logic chips costs twice as much as an aircraft carrier but will only be cutting-edge for a couple of years.

The government made no attempt to raise the magnitude of revenues that would have been necessary to rebuild a welfare state, for example, or to hike investment in health and education.

staggering. China's import of chips—$260 billion in 2017, the year of Xi's Davos debut—was far larger than Saudi Arabia's export of oil or Germany's export of cars. China spends more money buying chips each year than the entire global trade in aircraft. No product is more central to international trade than semiconductors.

China now spends more money each year importing chips than it spends

Putin himself publicly emphasized the importance of political stability to energy investment. "I worked in Saint Petersburg on a great many different projects," Putin explained in an interview in 2000. "If we're going from one putsch to another, and no one knows when the next putsch is coming and how it will end, then who will invest?

The relationship must come first or it will not last.

We can choose to put up with all sorts of unpleasant shit because we know our tomorrow selves will thank us for it.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

Soon U.S. corporate investment was expanding more rapidly in Hitler's Germany than in any other country in Europe, despite the worldwide economic depression.

West once said, "An analyzer costs ten thousand dollars. Overtime for engineers is free.

IBM and other mainframe companies spent more money selling their products and serving their customers than they did in actually building their machines.

When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I?

When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I?" It was a remark that Lanny would never forget.

The Grinbergs drew upon Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theories40 and showed how guilt over loss of parts of the self—that is, the immigrant or the refugee's previous identity and his or her investment in the land and people left behind—may complicate the newcomer's mourning process

How will you handle a large infusion of new capital or a large withdrawal?

The key to affording higher wages (we're talking frontline employees, not senior leadership) is a lower total wage cost as a percent of revenue. You have to remain competitive, and the best companies know that one great person can replace three good ones. Through rigorous selection (i.e., Topgrading), they get the absolute best talent in the door, pay employees above-market rates, and then invest heavily in training and development to make them more productive.

Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war-budget and a paltry budget of education?