Quotes About Investment

When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

Whether through the introduction of a Universal Basic Income, or through developing ways to ensure that the self-employed, entrepreneurs and fledgling start-up companies have the support they need to take chances and innovate, the £500bn investment programme proposed by Corbyn responds to the challenges we will inevitably have to face.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

I just don't really like starting a job if I don't know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.

ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.

The reason why we decided to put the focus on minority and women-funded startups is because this demographic of companies and founders is just underrepresented, they're under-invested in.