Quotes About Investment

The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

I wish I had some stock in a scrunchie company.

Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

Whether you're earning income because you have money sitting in the bank or a stock account somewhere, you should be taxed on that income fairly and the same.

People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies.

If you want to make short-term profits from the stock price, then I am a very bad president. But I don't think I'm so bad for maximizing the long-term value of Nintendo.

All my fighters know I'm a fan of theirs. They know I think of them as the stars and that we will facilitate in the building of their stock.

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

I love the Knicks and Rangers, right, but you still have a responsibility to your shareholders. They're not there because they're fans. You don't invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a stock because you're a fan. You do it because you think that the business is going to increase in value, that the stock price is going to go up.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.

Methinks, that a broker, however good and savvy, will only speak about the stock that interest him after he has bought enough of shares already and is now in the process of booking profits.