Quotes About Investment

Sweat equity is the best equity.

People should think about their closets like they think about a stock portfolio. There are things you want to invest in; you make those investments, and those are your blue chips. So you should invest in a great pair of jeans, in a great cashmere sweater.

If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn't you think better about it?

I don't see any particular sweet spot. But I do see sweet stocks that I really love and like and think are going to do well. And one is a company that probably makes that beautiful toenail polish you've got on. A company called Ulta. And it has just beautiful beauty salons all over the country.

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.

Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.

I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.

I am not entirely against horse racing. I even had a share in a horse syndicate with a few mates.

There should ideally be a synthetic track in every district. Athletics is tough, and needs more support.

The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks' CDs are getting chewed up.

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

If you want small group leaders to make a weekly investment in kids, then you need to make a weekly investment in small group leaders.

What if you started acting like what you do for kids is more important than anything else you do.

When we lead small we simply make a choice to invest strategically in the lives of a few over time so we can help them build an authentic faith.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Relationships are like soup: they are better the longer they simmer

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." —Mark Twain

you've got to earn more than the current combined rate of inflation and taxes in order for your money to grow in real terms.

So, simply divide whatever number you have— either the interest rate or the time —into the number 72, and the answer will be the number you need. If you divide the interest rate into 72, you'll get the time. If you divide the time into 72, you'll get the interest rate.

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.

The problem with long-term investing is the short term.