Quotes About Investment

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

Business is other people's money.

Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.