Quotes About Investment

Entropy is only ever tamed by the counteracting investment of active energy to bring some order and structure to your week.

Unfortunately, one of the things that is lacking in our society is a good financial education. Most people barely understand what the stock market is and how it operates, and options are a level above even that.

Put money in thy purse.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before

Some fellow built a house here and wrote on it: When I built my house I was very glad, when I knew its cost I got very sad. (During the night somebody scribbled right under it:) Building a house takes a lot of loot, and you should have known it, you nincompoop.

El que paga manda. Se lo aprendí tan bien a mi papá que hasta la fecha no he dejado de aplicarlo. Si entiendes eso, todo se hace más fácil. No es cosa de dinero, sino de inversión. El que más invierte tiene la palabra.

She'd given it two good years. The problem was, Don had only given it one.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.

Love is an offering, not a souvenir or an investment for personal interests. If thou loves only thyself, then thou doesn't know the definition of the word.

The world can only be empty if you will not put your heart and soul in it.

China was already a substantial investor in Italy, with a Chinese chemical company buying Pirelli, and Huawei buying mobile phone operator Wind.129 As China specialist François Godement points out, previous Italian governments were happy to sign a series of science and technology cooperation agreements that were 'essentially a carbon copy' of the priorities laid out in Made in China 2025, Beijing's blueprint for becoming the world's dominant technological power.

The Conte government has allowed a Chinese firm to buy into the nation's electricity network, and Italy's ports are also expected to feature strongly in the flow of BRI investment, especially in Trieste, which Geraci has said 'must be open to Chinese investments'.153 Trieste's port enhances Italy's role as China's gateway to Europe. (The city also boasts many of the nation's top scientific research institutions.)

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

pronto se hizo obvio un desequilibrio: lo que él me podía enseñar (naturaleza de los instrumentos, procedimientos, análisis de balances, etc.) era finito, mientras que mi dominio era inagotable. Las reglas y las def. son fijas; las condiciones y nuestras reacciones a ellas cambian a cada hora. Cierto, A me había proporcionado capital. Pero al cabo de un año más o menos, yo ya se lo había devuelto con creces y podría, en teoría, haberme establecido por mi cuenta.

But going against the mkt., everything is turned on its head: the more a stock is depreciated, the larger the profit, and vice versa.

Today's gentleman is yesterday's upstart. But behind these shifting characters there is a constant presence: the financier. Investing, lending, borrowing and, more widely, the efficient administration of capital is what sustained the city at each of those periods, regardless of what was being produced and sold.

As investment trusts shipwrecked and self-cannibalized, there was a tidal wave of sell orders but no buyers. Inevitably, that wave broke, leaving behind a stagnant ocean of unsalable stocks and a ravaged

In Haiti, untitled rural and urban real estate holdings are together worth some 5.2 billion. To put that sum in context, it is four times the total of all the assets of all the legally operating companies in Haiti, nine times the value of all assets owned by the government, and 158 times the value of all foreign direct investment in Haiti's recorded history to 1995.