Quotes About Investment

I didn't become interested in derivatives until 1982, 1983.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.

There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Bayen need quality, you have to invest and upgrade!

Buying a house that needs work can be one of the best ways to stretch your budget. Why pay for someone else's upgrade?

The need to upgrade our physical infrastructure is something most Americans can agree on.

Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

When a family buys a house, they know when it's the right one - the fixer upper where they can spend all their time and grow old together.

If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.

It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

I like things with upside. That's how you make money.

In my first home that I actually purchased, I built this nice little basement apartment, I moved into it, and I rented out the whole house upstairs. That allowed me to live there for free - because that's all I could afford.

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.