Quotes About Investment

That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.

United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student. Here

the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.

And now, with one semester to go, Mark was staring miserably at the reality of graduating with a combined total, undergrad and law school, principal and interest, of $266,000 in debt.

certainly luxurious for any student—1,800 euros

There is probably no worse investment strategy than following the conventional wisdom with a time-lag, and that is precisely what many small investors do - often with the encouragement of their advisers.

Three simple rules - pay less, diversify more and be contrarian - will serve almost everyone well.

An asset is worth what someone is willing to pay for it; and the value of an asset is the cash it will generate over its life.

People who applaud traders for providing liquidity to markets are often saying little more than that trading facilitates trading

I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I'll pour water on her.

Je suggère que tu mettes de côté une partie des sommes que tu investis à fonds perdus dans l'industrie des boissons alcooliques.

The second factor contributing to speculative euphoria and programmed collapse is the specious association of money and intelligence.

the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.

Speculation, it has been noted, comes when popular imagination settles on something seemingly new in the field of commerce or finance.

Increasing values again brought increasing values. As with the canals and turnpikes, it was transportation, this time the railroads, that was the focus of the speculation. Here the horizons seemed truly without limit. Who could lose on what was so obviously needed?

When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.

In the chapters that follow, we will see, and repeatedly, how the investing public is fascinated and captured by the great financial mind. That fascination derives, in turn, from the scale of the financial operations and the feeling that, with so much money involved, the mental resources behind them cannot be less. Only

specialists. In all speculative episodes there is always an element of pride in discovering what is seemingly new and greatly rewarding in the way of financial instrument or investment opportunity. The individual or institution that does so is thought to be wonderfully ahead of the mob.

There is nothing in economic life so willfully misunderstood as the great speculative episode. T

Leverage was magnificently available

For a long time the New York Stock Exchange looked with suspicion on the investment trusts; only in 1929 was fisting permitted.

Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. IRWIN CAREY