Quotes About Investment

The fact that your government now invests more in the military than in religion proves that no one is following the scriptures. Simply because they rely on reality and know that war cannot be avoided forever.

The wallet itself costs money before you start saving inside. It is the use and value of the things that matter most in life.

Time spent in prayer is not time wasted but time invested.

Uno se convierte en aquello que ha comprado con su tiempo.

Writing would take a tremendous leap of faith because I'd have to invest a lot of time and energy into something that I don't know will get published.

That a small fraction of colonists survived the first twenty years of settlement came as no surprise back home—nor did London's elite much care. The investment was not in people, whose already unrefined habits declined over time, whose rudeness magnified in relation to their brutal encounters with Indians.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

Global retail giant Wal-Mart has invested in Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu so it could learn Japanese secrets of food distribution and freshness.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

How much would you pay to launch our economy? How much would you pay for the universe?

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

You must stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money. Everything in life must be an investment

No matter who you are, your progress and success in life will depend, more than any other factor, on how you invest the twenty-four hours you're blessed with each day.

While directing your energy toward "making things fair" is often counterproductive, channeling your spiritual, mental, and physical energy toward achieving meaningful goals is a constructive investment of time.

A square tower with four big guns would be very costly,

Managing the Money Pit," I turn to the practical managerial implications of the commoditization of IT. Stressing the importance of controlling cost and risk, I offer four guidelines for IT investment and management: spend less; follow, don't lead; innovate when risks are low; and focus more on vulnerabilities than opportunities.

Why does the United States spend more than $20 billion a year on farm programs but less than $4 billion a year on education and early care for children in the critical first two years of life? Are corn and soybeans really a higher priority for America's future than our children?

One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow find the resources to pay for prisons later on.

As a fraction of GDP, the United States spends on job-training and assistance programs barely one-fifth as much as the average among industrialized countries. Moreover, the United States has significantly cut spending on these programs in recent decades, while significantly increasing spending on prisons instead.

Several studies have found that child poverty costs the United States about $ 1 trillion each year in increased health, crime, prison and welfare spending as well as in reduced earnings. That's about $ 8,000 per household annually. Most researchers find that each dollar invested in reducing child disadvantage would save the country at least $ 7.

Even a market with a single domestic monopolistic producer could be competitive if either the good or service the monopolist produces is tradable and barriers to imports are low or the barriers to foreign direct investment are modest.