Quotes About Investment

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

If there is something you want to protect, attack it with measured vigour yourself, thus investing it with replenished force, and pre-empting its annihilation.

La inflación trepó en 1967 al 41%. Y mientras que en la gestión de Alessandri el 50% de las inversiones eran hechas por el Estado, ya por 1966 las mismas ascendían al 80%. Crecía el desempleo, las acciones en la bolsa se desplomaban y comenzaba a aflorar un descontento que abarcaba a todas las clases sociales.

I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.

In 2006, after 8 years of losses, Wal-Mart beat a retreat from Germany, selling its stores to Metro, Germany's leading retailer, losing $1 billion in the process.

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app ' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

Yes, it isn't long since I purchased it," said Nozdrev. "How long?" "How long? Why, I purchased it three days ago, and gave a pretty sum for it, as the devil knows!" "Indeed? Why, three days ago you were at the fair?" "Wiseacre! Cannot one be at a fair and buy land at the same time? Yes, I WAS at the fair, and my steward bought the land in my absence.

Great teachers should be paid like doctors or corporate attorneys. I worry about what will happen to our economy and our democracy if we don't start to take teachers' jobs seriously.

too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.

Energy prices in the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index soared almost 60 percent in 2021 as supply lagged behind demand.49 Pressure on institutional investors from eco-minded shareholders has slashed investment in new fossil fuel projects by 40 percent, according to one estimate.

Borrowing to invest can make good sense as long as the return on the investment is higher than the cost of financing it. Borrowing to consume, on the other hand, uses debt to plug recurring bills or deficits that operating income should cover. Experience teaches prudent public and private borrowers a golden rule: borrow to invest, not to consume.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same and made them another five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained another two. But he that had received one went out and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

The idea is that all nonmilitary space travel, manned and unmanned, should be privatized. "If it's worth doing at all," Donner said, "it should be done for profit, and not as a burden on the taxpayers." As though profit could be counted only as immediate financial gain.

You get what you put into it," he explained.

the UNICEF State of the World's Children report for 2001 stated that 'for a government that wants to improve the lot of its people, investing in the first years of life is the best money it can spend. But tragically, both for children and for nations, these are the years that receive the least attention.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

HOW ONLINE LEARNING WORKS? Online learning is the hot topic these days as millions of dollars are being invested in new technologies, such as the Internet, with the expectation that education at all levels will be revolutionized. Newspapers now have feature sections about the Internet and technology-related self-help books are proliferating.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.