Quotes About Investment

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

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers as any guide for business, all they know is money.

You are not saving when you are taking away from yourself becoming more productive. You are really taking away from your ultimate capital.

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

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself.

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

a thing is not property unless it is owned; and without ownership, there is little incentive to improve it.

There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan. The banker is not giving something for nothing.

The total cost of printing was £1,239. 11s. 6d. In addition to Johnson's £1,575, at least £1,500 was spent on paper—a large, though not freakish, figure, since the purchase of paper was usually reckoned to account for half the cost of publishing a book. Still, this meant the outlay was in the region of £4,500.

the PAP's first nine years in power, Lee set aside nearly one-third of Singapore's budget for education Ã¢â'¬â€œ an astonishing proportion in relation to neighboring countries, or indeed any country in the world.[59]

Marrying for buty iz a poor spekulashun, for enny man who sees yure wife, has got just about az mutch stock in her as yu have.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world but an investment to be used in the world.

It's fine to seek professional help, but I urge everyone - no matter how big their portfolio - to truly understand every suggestion they're given before acting.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

I urge the Department of Education not to settle for half-measures when it comes to students.

The Green New Deal for Public Schools represents the level of school infrastructure investment that is urgent and necessary to heal the harm from decades of disinvestment, redlining and cycles of poverty and trauma, particularly for Black and brown children.

Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

If you give me $100bn now, I can't use it. There is not only money, there is talent and experience. That's why we need the private sector.