Quotes About Investment

A retired teacher paid $62 000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215 000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124 000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500 000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120 000 investment.

but the consensus in Washington was that trade and investment would encourage China to become a "responsible stakeholder" of the international system, as influential diplomat Robert Zoellick put it.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

A development team represents a significant investment on the part of the business.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Please understand that when I use this term – technical win – I'm referring to the responsibility to both convince the audience of the technical superiority of the solution and establish the business value of the investment.

Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

the government moved swiftly to mandate that all trains should have "positive train control," an electronic signaling system that will automatically stop or slow down a train to prevent a crash if the engineer misses a red signal. Although the system may ultimately benefit the railroads marginally by making it possible to run extra trains, effectively they are being asked to pay several billion dollars

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Ne kemi nevojë për dy burra: një të heshtur për dashuri dhe një të zgjuar, që ta dëgjojmë gjithë ditën. Ose asnjë, sepse ndjenjat që investohen qëndrojnë në një raport të papranueshëm me rezultatin.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time than by being right at the wrong time.

They were merchant families, mostly, descendants of Englishmen who'd gotten rich trading with the tsars and sultans and rajahs of long ago, then come over to America because all their money didn't stop the aristocrats from snubbing them. Now their great-grandchildren just made a few investments here and there and kept charitable institutions the way an average Joe keeps a pet.

They decided to invest in the new business of Internet shopping. According to Philip, Internet shopping was the future. In a few years, everyone would be doing their shopping on the Internet,

At Mayflower-Plymouth, we are excited to invest in the evolution of a lot of different industries from IP to E-commerce to Transportation to Real Estate and more. But in every case, the goal is to add value and make things better. We are an investment company with soul and with purpose.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself–in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.