Quotes About Investment

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

I think it's really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my schoolwork as something I'm investing in for me. And I'm my own product as an actor. There's a kind of career that I want, and I feel like I'm making choices to obtain that.

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

When you nurture and support your body, it reciprocates. The basis of that support is exercise, like it or not. The most essential benefit is more energy; weight control is a bonus. I know for sure that taking care of your body, no matter what, is an investment, and the return is priceless.

Ve?inu smo novca ulagali ili trošili na kupnju parcela i starih zgrada za budu?e gradnje u dijelovima grada koji ?e poskupjeti. Posebice kupuju?i prazna zemljišta izvan grada, osje?ao sam se poput sultana koji pokušava zaboraviti na bol zbog nemanja djece pripajaju?i nove države svome carstvu.

The little difference between what we earn and what we spend is capital.

The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price. Success is on sale in the world market place. All who are willing to pay the price can buy it.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

Mike knows the market is crazy, but it will come back," Wynn continued. "But the people who run money panic, they want to get out, so they start selling everything—and Mike will make a bid. Then he sits there. And when it does come back, he makes out.

Scared money can't win and a worried man can't love.

They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place

If a blind, three-legged racehorse named "Next Stop: Glue Factory" were racing down at the Fort Erie track, you can bet Lex Galbraith would've bet his life savings on the nose of that nag.

There's no better investment than your cleavage. Charlotte smirked. I believe they teach that in business school.

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

If capital is what produces a stream of income - and that is a definition no one seems to quarrel with - then it follows that software is a form of capital. It has always been difficult to measure any form of knowledge capital, but in the past the problem was not as urgent, since the ratio of difficult-to-quantify knowledge capital to more tangible capital was not as high or growing as rapidly as it is today.

On Startups: I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.

That was back when state governments valued education and realized the economic and social value of making it affordable.

When you help build something, you own it, you're vested in it. That's far more rewarding than having it handed down to you."111