Quotes About Investment

No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy another business in America, grow jobs or try to become more financially strong, that is good for the United States.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

The strange thing about being an actor is it's almost a little dangerous to invest in an idea. I think once you invest in the idea of where someone is going, then you're not fully open to being able to play the opposite of that if that's what the character is going to do.

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

The reality is the three gulf carriers - Emirates, Qatar and Etihad - are forces with which to be reckoned. Strategic investments by co-operative governments have given them large fleets and huge airports. They have created a flourishing environment while established carriers languish.

I can think of no wiser financial investment than in self-knowledge. It is the path to freedom, at many levels. By sorting through painful past experiences, irrational beliefs, and unacknowledged fears, people can become free of these chains and find healthier ways of coping than making money and consuming things.

In America the lack of investment in train travel speaks eloquently of a country always ready to appear righteous but pathologically averse to surrendering car and plane for a more eco-friendly, community-conscious form of mobility.

Winning is an investment. It's the result of making "selfish" choices that empower your goals, separate you from limitations and insecurities, and create distance between

Bank accounts were not backed by anything but the good name of the people who ran the bank. And too many of them saw the personal savings of High Plains nesters as just another source of cash for the stock market or an ill-conceived business loan. No matter the exact cause: the First National was broke.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen." This

PETER: "The pitch was, 'Listen, wouldn't you want entrepreneurs around the world to be working on new technologies so that this is off your balance sheet?'" TF:

This doesn't mean you want to spend your time doing it. If you spend your time, worth $20–25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. It is important to take baby steps toward paying others to do work for you.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."—Warren Buffett

Una inversión que produce una rentabilidad financiera inmensa pero que me hace perder los nervios por completo, o me causa insomnio y berrinches durante un periodo largo de tiempo, NO es una buena inversión.

Can they redistribute retirement throughout life to make it more affordable?

emprendedor en el sentido más puro del término, tal como fue acuñado en 1800 por el economista francés J. B. Say: alguien que traslada recursos económicos desde un ámbito donde producen menos a otro donde rindan más.

trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life.

Por cada dólar de ingreso que generas, ¿puedes inducir un coste de cinco a diez dólares para los competidores? Si es así, invierte.

Buffett le dijo: «Invertir en ti es la inversión más importante que puedes hacer en la vida… Nunca habrá una inversión financiera comparable, porque si desarrollas más destreza, más capacidad, eso será lo que realmente te dará la libertad económica…

You limit angel investment funds to 10 to 15% or less of your liquid assets. I subscribe to the Nassim Taleb "barbell" school of investment, which I implement as 90% in conservative asset classes like cash-like equivalents and the remaining 10% in speculative investments that can capitalize on positive "black swans.

Breaking your rules to co-invest with well-known investors is usually a bad idea, but following your rules when others reject a startup can work out extremely well.