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Quotes About Investment

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
~ Unknown
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
~ Jacob Hacker
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
~ Jacques Barzun
He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.
~ Unknown
Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.
~ James Altucher
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
The nine largest banks, which received $125 billion from TARP, were collectively paying dividends of more than $25 billion a year.
~ Unknown
Later, she calculated that the dead men's flight alone had cost over sixty-eight thousand dollars. "What if," she asked, "somebody had simply invested that amount in their villages to begin with?
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.
~ Lupe Velez
A penny saved is better than a penny earned.
~ Unknown
If you now work into your 70s or 80s in a rapidly changing job market, then maintaining productivity is no longer about brushing up on knowledge – it is about setting time aside to make fundamental investments in re-learning and re-skilling.
~ Unknown
You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's method for rehabilitating polio patients, her idea was scorned until enough men embraced it.
~ Lynn Cullen
Sports is all about money.
~ Lynn Samuels
Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.
~ Unknown
There is nothing more discouraging than speaking with an employee who received significant funding for advanced education and professional development, and then failed to fully use their new skills to benefit their organization. When this happens, employees typically leave to work at an organization that wants their skill and talent.
~ Unknown
As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.
~ Unknown
Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis
~ Machado de Assis
Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.
~ John D. MacDonald
when feudalism ended; the legal preconditions were put in place for a property market. Quite simply, bits of the estates could now be bought and sold. And land that is acquired rather than inherited needs to be paid for; it is an investment that has to be put to profitable use. Capitalism had arrived in Sicily.
~ Unknown
Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James, too, was much disturbed. He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent. Jolyon had spoiled her. None of his girls would have said such a thing. James had always been exceedingly liberal to his children, and the consciousness of this made him feel it all the more deeply. He trifled moodily with his strawberries, then, deluging them with cream, he ate them quickly; they, at all events, should not escape him.
~ John Galsworthy
Hollywood is a technological crapshoot. Table stakes open at a million dollars. It was true in 1968, it is true now.
~ John Gregory Dunne
In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.
~ John Grisham
You know what they say—the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.
~ John Grisham