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Quotes About Investment

One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.
~ Philip A. Fisher
control its own destiny. It was later that I was to build on this base to conclude that even a strong sales arm is not enough. For a company to be a truly worthwhile investment, it must not only be able to sell its products, but also be able to ?appraise changing needs and desires of its customers; in other words, to master all that is implied in a true concept of marketing.
~ Philip A. Fisher
The statement that a man or company of men who put their money in a business have a right to operate it as they see fit, without regard to the public interest, belongs to days long since passed away," the congressional report asserted. "Every individual who invests his capital … is entitled to the protection of the law … but he owes something to society.
~ Philip Dray
Stock prices do not always reflect the true value of companies, so an investor should study a company thoroughly and really understand its business, capital, and management when deciding whether it had sufficient underlying value to make an investment for the long term worthwhile.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
~ Phillip Fisher
This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.
~ Donald Evans
Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.
~ Martin McGuinness
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.
~ Sturgill Simpson
Investing in children's education is vital.
~ Katie Hopkins
Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
~ Jack Reed
Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.
~ Janet Yellen
Investing in vital infrastructure will help to build more sustainable, equitable economies.
~ Winnie Byanyima
The roads for connectivity are vital. We have partners and we have revenue that we will make sure will come in to build our roads.
~ George Weah
How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
~ David Gergen
Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself to grow at the same time.
~ Ivan Glasenberg
Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we're buying the correct version.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
Given my earlier experience as the longest served CM of the erstwhile undivided A.P., I focused on choosing right people in the right place with clear priorities in the departments that were vital to attract large-scale investments into the state.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
A vital part of Trump's appeal was his promise to make America emphatically great again, staunching the haemorrhage of jobs and investment to China and Mexico, and cutting back on handouts to NATO and illegal migrants.
~ Linda Colley
It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.
~ Grant Shapps
Federal resources are vital to the health of our HBCUs.
~ Jaime Harrison
Investment in infrastructure enables children to go to school. Investment in vital public services like health and education gives young people the opportunity to shape their own futures and reach their potential.
~ Alok Sharma
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
~ Mick Cornett