Quotes About Investment

Live no one else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow

I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

Why spend a thought worrying when you can invest the same thought planning a prosperous future?

Time is your most valuable currency!

So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.

IBM acquired a great deal of modern manufacturing and sales capacity—for the wrong products.

Squander your youth," he wanted to say, "and you'll have a lifetime to make heavy payments.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

Whether through blind luck or sound business sense, Blum ended up buying the whole set of soup cans for $1,000, paying $100 per month till it was paid off. In 1999 he sold them to the Museum of Modern Art for $7 million in cash and a $7 million tax deduction.

An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

The preparation of an illuminated book has always been a very expensive business.

Someone can always take your money or belongings from you, but no one can ever steal your education.

The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

The price dip didn't disturb Munger's equanimity. "I'm 76 years of age," he said. "I've been through a number of down periods. If you live a long time, you're going to be out of investment fashion some of the time.

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

It was like having your teenager sell a spin in your Ferrari for a dollar. The more rides he sells, the more money he makes, until he wrecks your Ferrari.

Think: How many great achievements have you accomplished with little effort? Then why put less effort into the one thing you want most, which is love?

Love thrives in the presence of commitment. So don't waste years of your life dragging on a relationship that exist only in your imagination.

Don't throw good time after bad work.

Change makes things worse all the time. It's easier to fuck up something that's working well than it is to genuinely improve it. But we commonly delude ourselves into thinking that more time, more investment, more attention is always going to win.

Promises are easy and cheap to make, actual work is hard and expensive.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.