Quotes About Investment

Hearing protection is a sound investment.

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

R&D is a special class of spending that often is equated, mistakenly, with investment spending. Investments presume knowledge, albeit imperfect, about future costs and returns. R&D represents an effort to gain a stake in future opportunities before anything is known about future costs and returns.

To maximize return on investment is an inadequate statement of purpose. It fails to accomplish the paramount responsibility of leadership—to provide meaning and inspiration to those who are expected to follow. The mass of people within our corporations are not primarily motivated by maximizing private gain. Many firms are structured as if they were….

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

A woman's health is her capital.

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process.

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process. You have to invest. The investments you make, of both time and money, demonstrate your confidence in what you are offering. The premium prices you pay are literally that: premiums. They are your insurance in your success. I overlooked that once. I never have again.

organizations need to shift their emphasis from getting more out of people to investing more in them, so they are motivated—and able—to bring more of themselves to work every day.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

Our first concern is his happiness of course; but not just today." Because it wasn't that simple, was it? Raising children was the longest of long games.

In 1980 the Latin American nations collectively were receiving from their external creditors—major banks, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank—about $11 billion more than they were losing in capital transfers back to wealthy-nation interests. But by 1985 these nations would be losing $35 billion more a year in capital transfers to North America and Europe than they received in loans and investments.41

Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.

To achieve sustained high returns on capital requires possessing features that protect returns from competition; namely, competitive advantages. Identifying what these competitive advantages are and understanding their sustainability is an essential part of the quality investment process.

Asset-light industries are attractive since they require less capital to be deployed in order to generate sales growth. The finest examples are franchise operations, such as Domino's Pizza, where growth is funded by franchisees rather than by the company. Other

high capital intensity companies can also be attractive, especially where the capital requirement confers stability and deters entrants.

The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And

financial statements classify advertising costs as expenses, they are often better conceived of as investments. This reclassification makes sense because advertising is also a far more flexible expenditure than most costs. Amid challenging economic times, advertising can be scaled back relatively quickly, adding agility to protect and manage cash flows. However

much diversification is really diworsification.

They say you get out of life what you put in, but that is only true if you can understand what it is that you are getting.

When there is a world recession, at some stage the world or major countries will come out of it, and people will spend money again. How can you use your time now to develop something which will be needed when the recession ends?

Con el telón de fondo de las intensas presiones competitivas, el papel del directivo empezaba a verse cada vez más comprometido. Los sueldos que podían cobrar en las grandes compañías eran notables, pero también los riesgos de ser despedidos. Sus actuaciones se juzgaban de acuerdo con modelos cada vez más exigentes, pero desde luego el objetivo más importante era conseguir beneficios a corto plazo que atrajeran a nuevos inversores.

The investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.