Quotes About Investment

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

The great ones don't come cheap.

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

While I enjoy and have enjoyed great success building my own personal apparel and accessories collections, my greatest passion has and will always be real estate.