Quotes About Investment

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.

Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy.

The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

If low taxes were the way that people like me created wealth, then we'd be starting our companies in the Congo or Somalia or Afghanistan, but we're not. We come to places where there are lots and lots of customers.

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

Some of the wealthiest people in the world became wealthy by saving money.

The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.