Quotes About Investment

If you tell someone that getting a job and a salary might not be the best way to make money, in fact it might be the best way to go broke, this doesn't even compute. The investment bias is too large. "This is my entire life you're talking about!" This

The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide.

Every time I refused to believe in and act on the American Dream, I was punished severely. Because everyone else has invested so much of their money and lives in this dream that it freaks them out when other people deviate—let alone take a detour, or be happier.

If you want someone to spend one hour of their life helping you, then you need to spend 10 hours of your life, at least, helping them IN ADVANCE and with NO PRESSURE.

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.

while you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.

If you want to scale your culture, if you want to make the journey from great company to enduring great company, you must invest in building a pipeline of the right unit leaders.

The problem is not the statistical odds; the problem is that people are squandering their time and resources on the wrong things.

Lend a little and you have a debtor—lend a lot and you have a partner!

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love.

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

Don't underestimate the value of a great hair dryer.

My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came from my dad, the second from mostly cash flow. The third was an SBA loan. After my dad invested $1.5 million to open a few more, he suggested I raise the money myself for the experience.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.