Quotes About Investment

Love is Like an investment! You put your time, attention and emotion into it hoping to someday receive it back with interest.

If you dont need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations are not there in the same way.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity.

The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion over time... In general, as the value of land increases, the return on capital tends to decrease comparatively, which discourages business owners from investing in capital goods and private enterprise... Resources flow away from endeavours that can create jobs, produce wealth, and enliven society, and instead flow into land speculation.

Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment of goods and services when proportionally more income is used to pay monopolized rent for land. Essentially, whenever property owners collect rent from rising land values, fewer financial resources are left over for wages and capital investments, and this dynamic can effectively put society on the fast track toward social decline and wealth inequality.

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

An inscribed Casino Royale in a fine dust jacket costs as much as a small house. The earliest books of John le Carré are worth a king's ransom in fine condition.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

The guiding light of investment contrarianism is not that the majority view-the conventional, or received, wisdom-is always wrong. Rather, it's that majority opinion tends to solidify into a dogma while its basic premises begin to lose their original validity and so become progressively more mispriced in the marketplace.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

Does design pay off? The Design Management Institute partnered with Motiv Strategies to measure the return on design investment where it counts—in stock values. Over a 10-year period, a $10,000 investment in design-centric companies would have yielded returns 228 percent greater than the same investment in the S&P 500. And this is only an average.

Cicero himself had large amounts of money invested in low-grade property and once joked, more out of superiority than embarrassment, that even the rats had packed up and left one of his crumbling rental blocks.

To make big money in the investment world you have to learn to think independently; to think independently you need to be comfortable standing alone.

After all, you have just been sold a painting for $1 million, and the cost of making it was probably less than $500.

Love could be such a beautiful, long lasting thing if people actually put the effort into keeping it. When they don't, the love is lost.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us 'old friend in the years to come.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.