Quotes About Investment

We want companies looking to expand to come to North Carolina because there's no better place to invest and grow.

That's the biggest struggle in Norway. Most of the money doesn't go to tennis.

You can't be a losing team and get a new arena. That's not fair. That's not fair! That's how I see it.

You'd rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that's going to last than pay less money for a headshot that's not good enough.

As a company, we are not interested only in investments.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It's important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.

'Burn Notice' is a show that definitely has some levity to it and it's a fun show, but it's also, you fully believe, you're fully invested that Michael Westen does this stuff. You want Michael Westen on your team.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set a buyer back over $1100.

This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that.

Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

As investments and as an energy source, fossil fuels have nowhere to go but down.

I have become a bargain - where do you find a player who scores 28 goals in Serie A and costs €28m? Nowhere, right?

Building new nuclear is something that is going to take a lot of commitment, not only from our company but from the communities we serve. It is a five-to-seven-year journey to build one, and they are expensive.

If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.

I have nurtured my kids by myself. I am happy that I invested those 10 years in bringing up my kids.

I know people seek me out to be their mentor, and I've chosen a few people I'm really invested in and nurturing their career and their aesthetic and just their person.

We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.