Quotes About Investment

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Rest assured, the government is ready to support and enhance the competitiveness of the biotechnology industry.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.