Quotes About Investment

I believe companies like ours are going to be as large as media companies and social networking companies that are valued in the tens of billions of dollars.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.

Gold actually has properties - you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for the bitcoin; they value it because they believe that they can exchange it for something else.

That is, cleaning up pollution is usually far more expensive than preventing pollution, just as doctors usually find it far more expensive and less effective to try to cure already sick patients than to prevent diseases in the first place by cheap, simple public health measures.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

WHEN YOU INVEST, your mind has a mind of its own. At the very moment when you are most convinced of your own rationality, you may be feeling rather than thinking your way toward a decision.

The risk you are likely to be rewarded for taking is the risk of owning all stocks. In effect, rather than betting on one roll of the dice, one spin at the roulette wheel, or a single hand at the blackjack table, you can own the whole casino. You can do this effortlessly, cheaply, and reliably by buying a total stock-market index fund, a low-cost portfolio of all the stocks worth owning.

A stock is not cheap or expensive merely because its price is below or above a particular number. It is cheap or expensive only in relation to the fundamental value of the underlying business, which has nothing to do with whether the share price is near an anchor. If you find yourself getting excited over any investment based purely on its price, you're anchoring.

Putting up to a third of your stock money in mutual funds that hold foreign stocks (including those in emerging markets) helps insure against the risk that our own backyard may not always be the best place in the world to invest.

Yet I had invested nothing up front. It was just a matter of recognizing that one person's distress is another person's opportunity.   When

Marketing is the greatest return-on-investment activity a business can ever do. Let

Most people in bad times cut corners in the most treacherous way imaginable—by downsizing human or intellectual capital, the real asset of most businesses today. That is a mistake. You can find no greater upside-leveraging tools than the energy, passion, intelligence, connections, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human beings you surround yourself with.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

The truth about networking is you need to do it before you want to see results.

They make it part of their DNA because they know that it now costs six times more to sell something to a new customer than to an existing customer.

If you've decided to market online, the first rule of which you should be aware is the rule of thirds: You should determine the budget you'll have for online marketing, then invest one third in developing your site, one third in promoting your site, and one third in maintaining your site. Most ill-advised online marketers invest three thirds in developing their site, then wonder why they aren't earning landmark profits.

I mean, if I am going to invest in a new model, I'd have to be sure there's a market. We will create a market, said Claire with surprising ruthlessness. That's how business works. That's how late capitalism works, I said.

The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe – no way to see what's inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble.

the surest way to feel rich was to invest in quality nonessentials.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.