Quotes About Investment

When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.

if we are going to experience a miracle one day, we need to pray every day. Too many people pray like they are playing the lottery. Prayer is more like an investment account. Every deposit accumulates compound interest. And one day, if we keep making deposits every day, it will pay dividends beyond our wildest imagination.

Finally, here's the great news: Prayer covers a multitude of sins. You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

The hard, cold reality of trading is that every trade has an uncertain outcome.

attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table.

Highway building, in their scheme, was a form of social and economic therapy.

Acquisitions like that take years to play out," said Mahaney

In plain English, the immense investment of tax dollars in a vast government-run educational infrastructure is buying young people a poor education.

In plain English, the immense investment of tax dollars in a vast government-run educational infrastructure is buying young people a poor education. The data demonstrate there is no overall correlation between the dramatic spending increases in public education during the last several decades and academic achievement.

Forget about earnings. That's a priesthood of the accounting profession," he would preach, unrelentingly. "What you're really after is appreciating assets. You want to own as much of that asset as you can; then you want to finance it as efficiently as possible." 6 And above all else, make sure that the deals you do avoid as much in taxes as is legally possible. And then some.

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

According to George Soros, what's important is not whether you're right or wrong about the market. What's important is how much money you make when you're right about a trade, and how much money you lose when you're wrong.

An investment philosophy is a set of beliefs about: the nature of investment reality: how markets work, why prices move; a theory of value, including how value can be identified, and what causes profits and losses; and the nature of a good investment.

There's millions in it!

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.