Quotes About Investment

Standard & Poor's Dow Jones Indices published a statistical analysis in 2016 detailing the dismal record of "active" portfolio managers: As is typically the case, about two-thirds of active large-capitalization managers underperformed the S&P 500 large-cap index during 2015. Nor

Nor were managers any better in the supposedly less efficient, small-capitalization universe. Almost three-quarters of small-cap managers underperformed the S&P Small-Cap Index. When

THE PRINCIPAL REASON WE SHOULD ALL ARTICULATE OUR LONG-TERM investment policies explicitly and in writing is to protect our portfolios from ourselves.

The great advantage of indexing investment operations is that we can avoid the vain search for superior performance and concentrate our time and energy on investment policy and asset-mix decisions. Instead, it focuses your attention on the most important decision in investing: defining the long-term "policy" portfolio that will both minimize the risk of avoidable mistakes and maximize the chances of achieving your true investment objectives.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

What alone was wanting to the realization of a vast fortune, he considered to be More Capital. Those were the two little words, more capital. Now

Your Talents SCRIPTURE READING: LUKE 19:12– 27 KEY VERSE: LUKE 19:17

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

Th' safest way t' double your money is t' fold it over once an' put it back in your pocket.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

You know you're a skydiver when you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost.

Diamonds may have been a girl's best friend in an era when a woman's only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

what if we spent as much time and money on Bible study as we do our hobbies?

A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.

Jim Elliot summarized it well: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Disciple making is not a program but a relationship.

Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.

The time and energy that innovators invested in new methods thus yielded a much higher social return than the meager private return they reaped.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.