Quotes About Investment

In 2004, India was doing extraordinarily well. The middle class had begun to look to the West for its reference points. Foreign companies rushed to invest in the economy. Commentators removed the old hyphenation of India-Pakistan and began a new one: India-China.

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

The Richest Man in Babylon:

Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.