Quotes About Investment

Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that.

In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousands of public dollars on "education" —and not a dime or a thought on character.

The stories they tell become tragic because the interest of the land, the human investment of interest and affection in the land, becomes subordinated to the interest of a 'larger' economy that removes the human interest native to a place and replaces it with its own interest in itself.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

Hey Almanzo, if you liked it then you should've built a shanty on it.

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ADVENTURE CAPITALISTS

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

The "occasionally remarkable" moments shouldn't be left to chance! They should be planned for, invested in.

Relationships don't deepen naturally. In the absence of action, they will stall.

We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of 60,000 people. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Parents are often shocked, too, to hear that, once you control for aptitude, a person's lifetime earnings don't vary based on what college they attended. In other words, if you're smart enough to get into Yale, it doesn't really matter (from an income perspective) whether you go there or instead choose your much cheaper state university. The

Pain now for a payoff later.

increase an employee's productivity by one to two minutes a day, you've paid back the cost of wireless.

In purchasing a piggy, you're basically paying $10 in hopes of protecting $22 in spare change from your own hands. Life is full of these piggy-bank situations

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.