Quotes About Investment

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness

Education is a huge priority, and that's just the best.

The investment perspective on resource scarcity is conceptually straightforward: We need to price the risks correctly, and we need to look for investment opportunities in companies that provide solutions.

The only reason to save money is to invest it.

There is a growing consensus in the investment world that climate change presents a group of risks that will, if unmitigated, have a profound impact on economic performance and financial returns.

You can make a positive impact on society and the environment without sacrificing returns.

self-protective withdrawal from candidates who are perceived as particularly privileged or untouchable, and "compassionate graduation" of inadequately performing candidates who have remained in training for many years are other typical symptoms of the failure to invest adequate authority in the faculty body.

Dressing like a shapeless blob is bad for morale (yours and your mate's; possibly even the baby's). Invest strategically in a few flattering maternity clothes. Then convert cardigans and leggings from your closet into pregnancy gear and brighten your face with lipstick and colored scarves. Attention to these details signals that you are not graduating from "femme" to "maman." You'll be both.

A minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later," the author George Saunders

I learned not to invest too much in a relationship before I really know how the other person feels.

Thinking about moats can protect your investment capital in a number of ways. For one thing, it enforces investment discipline, making it less likely that you will overpay for a hot company with a shaky competitive advantage. High returns on capital will always be competed away eventually, and for most companies—and their investors—the regression is fast and painful.

The basic investment process is simple: Analyze the company and value the stock. If you avoid the mistake of confusing a great company with a great investment—and the two can be very different—you'll already be ahead of many of your investing peers. (Think of Cisco at 100 times earnings in 2000. It was a great company, but it was a terrible stock.)

I went back and read all the Berkshire Hathaway annual reports. My life changed course as a result.

the likelihood that those estimated future cash flows will actually materialize (risk), how large those cash flows will likely be (growth), how much investment will be needed to keep the business ticking along (return on capital), and how long the business can generate excess profits (economic moat).

If the organization doesn't invest resources in the development of the team, it will be more difficult to convince the team that their task really is relevant.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

The Human Resources Scorecard: Measuring the Return on Investment (ButterworthHeinemann, 2001),

We're all college prep, so most of the hard work had to be done early enough to prove to colleges we'd be worth indebting ourselves forever to them.

The agreement was known as a tontine, an antique investment instrument, with origins in seventeenth-century Europe, in which a number of participants band together in what is effectively a mortality lottery, pooling their funds with an understanding that the last investor to die will win everything.

You're already into me for nine talents.

Everything has a price; the only question is how big.