Quotes About Finance

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

I don't give investment advice.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.

Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

I have 9 children; I'm a big believer in childhood education, but we've got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.

Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.

It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

Second homes are an investment.

Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

There's no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

I don't like to discuss my investments.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.