Quotes About Investment

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

I was determined to do the best I could at my job and at the same time to have as much fun as possible at that splendid dance hall. If I was lucky, I thought, maybe the war would end; then I would be able to make a lot of money in business. I dreamed of having my own company in China, and to some extent I regarded the evenings at the dance hall as an investment in the future, albeit one that had been financed to a considerable extent by my brother.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Our lives are the only real thing we have, our only coin. We get to buy what we want with them

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Life is a business transaction.

Ça se croit grand parce que ça fait de petites choses avec de grands capitaux.

Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free?' (Her daughters shrieked when they heard that phrase.)

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.

I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that.

We shall sooner have the bird by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I bought a bird feeder. It was expensive, but I figured in the long run it would save me money on cat food.

Childhood is really age-less. It's just a matter of how much time you can invest in it.

Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary - just as notional, just as easy come and easy go, as the points in a video game. Wage earners like Willing's mother thought money was real. Because the work was real, and the time was real, it seemed inconceivable that what the work and the time had converted into would be gossamer.

The core dynamic of the capitalist system is the accumulation process, a process in which a portion of the profits reaped through the sale of goods and services is reinvested, swelling the capital stock, incorporating new technologies in the process, and permitting larger sales and profits in the future.

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.

My dad supported me by working extra hours and giving me a little bit of extra money. He bought my camper van for me so I could go into Europe and drive from competition to competition.

I've got a 6,000 square-foot home in Plano that probably costs as much as a three-bedroom house in Van Nuys.

Well, everybody used to joke that I saved the first dollar that I ever made in Van Halen. I probably did somewhere.