Quotes About Investment

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

In the art world, Monet means money.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

In the 1920s, he decided that it was cheaper to drill for oil than to buy the overvalued shares of other oil companies. After the 1929 stock market crash, he completely changed tack; he saw that oil shares were selling at a great discount to assets, and he turned to prospecting for oil on the floor of the stock exchange—in

And aspirations will come up against an ineluctable reality—today's energy system, which is more than 80 percent based on oil, natural gas, and coal, with a huge embedded investment in infrastructure and supply chains—all of which will be required to meet the energy needed during the recovery period and get back on the economic growth track (see Figure 3).

Bill Casey called her the next morning to say he wanted her to bid on the two paintings at Christie's, to start his collection. His wife had liked them too, when he showed her the images. They established a maximum price she could bid up to. He sounded very excited, and she was happy for him. This was a major step, and a big investment

Los países fracasan hoy en día porque sus instituciones económicas extractivas no crean los incentivos necesarios para que la gente ahorre, invierta e innove.

In the words of a Chinese economist, "Big state companies can get involved in huge projects. But when private companies do so, especially in competition with the state, then trouble comes from every corners [sic].

Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.

There is no denying the lesson these numbers teach us. The future is going to be expensive.

three baskets into which you should put your eggs. I call them the security basket, the retirement basket, and the dream basket.

Most of us don't really think about how we spend our money—or if we do, we focus solely on the big items. At the same time, we ignore the small but steady expenses that drain away our cash. We don't think about what it cost us to earn our money, and we don't realize how much wealth we could have if, instead of wasting it, we invested it.

When you pay yourself first, what you're really doing is putting yourself first.

most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.