Quotes About Investment

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose!

There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Put money in thy purse.