About Investment Quotes

#1. The UK is the number one destination in European Union for inward investment, the World Bank has ranked the UK as the sixth easiest place in he world to do business, so any organisation that makes promises about investment in the UK should live up to those promises.

James Brokenshire

#2. A lucky man ... is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. p 553

Eleanor Catton

#3. There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Charles Saatchi

#4. There are opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, so yes back home we are talking about investment opportunities in Morocco for various sectors of our economy and we will continue to do that.

Donald Evans

#5. I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

Melanie Brown

#6. A lucky man, I've always said, is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does. (Dick Mannering
19th century New Zealand goldfields magnate)

Eleanor Catton

#7. Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

Margo Kaufman

#8. Another [interviewee] told me that because her relationships aren't built on false ideas about exclusivity forever, she feels more cherished by her partners; she said, There is an investment in what we have rather than what we should have.

Tristan Taormino

#9. A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.

Gloria Reuben

#10. It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

Reid Hoffman

#11. After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

Patrick DeWitt

#12. We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

Roger McNamee

#13. My Lehman interview was representative not just of my own experience, but of thousands of interviews conducted by a dozen investment banks on several dozen college campuses from about 1981 onwards.

Michael Lewis

#14. I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Hugh Downs

#15. Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. ... Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.

Meg Jay

#16. Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles can be solved by women's working harder.

Bell Hooks

#17. I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.

Joanna Walsh

#19. The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

Nigel Lawson

#20. Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Josh Radnor

#21. Friendship is like an investment; the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends; it's about making right friends for the right reasons!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

Rupert Murdoch

#23. As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

John Maynard Keynes

#24. The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds.

Michael Lewis

#25. The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Alex Winter

#26. It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

Nancy Gibbs

#27. Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.

Aswath Damodaran

#28. deductible, depreciable, and deferrable - are about reducing your taxable income. No investment does that better than real estate, which offers unprecedented tax advantages both while you own it and when you sell it. Millionaire

Gary Keller

#29. People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.

Muhammad Yunus

#30. The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Matt Taibbi

#31. As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

Marian Wright Edelman

#32. Everyday i meet with clients including widows and divorcees who have the same fears about money and it's my role to empower them, and women in general, to take control of their finances and create a plan.

Maili Wong

#33. I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

Jason Kilar

#34. Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

Anne Robinson

#35. When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

Irene Rosenfeld

#36. For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

Bobby Sager

#37. It's taboo," he said. "When they ask you why you want to be an investment banker, you're supposed to talk about the challenges, and the thrill of doing deals, and the excitement of working with such high-calibre people, but never, ever mention money.

Michael Lewis

#38. People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Walter Annenberg

#39. NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment, .. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics.

Bob Wright

#40. We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Stephen Cambone

#41. Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

John W. Snow

#42. All our lives, we've been taught to defer to experts: teachers, doctors, and investment "professionals." But ultimately, expertise is about results. You can have the fanciest degrees from the fanciest schools, but if you can't perform what you were hired to do, your expertise is meaningless. In

Ramit Sethi

#43. Price is not the same thing as value. Over the long term, value should be the same as a price that leads to proper decisions about consumption, exploitation, and investment, without extinguishing the resource.

Ian Harris

#44. Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption.

Larkin Grimm

#45. There isn't a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.

Foster Friess

#46. Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

Amah Lambert

#47. [Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.

James Brokenshire

#48. The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products.

Michael Milken

#49. I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

Jon Tester

#50. Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#51. The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

Alex Berenson

#52. What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

Christopher Galvin

#53. I'm great at making love, at least for the first 20 bucks, and for about 30 minutes after that I just sort of lay there, trying to stretch out my investment.

Jarod Kintz

#54. During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.

Vivek Wadhwa

#55. I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

Daymond John

#56. I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.

Jeremy Corbyn

#57. There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

Bruce Bartlett

#58. From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.

Lee Myung-bak

#59. I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

Tom Rath

#60. The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

John Maynard Keynes

#61. What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Laura Linney

#62. If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Rebecca West

#63. Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

Barry Ritholtz

#64. Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

Marc Singer

#65. Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

Rene Carayol

#66. At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.

Bev Perdue

#67. Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Murray Rothbard

#68. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#69. Avoid companies that are cavalier about issuing new options to managers

Aswath Damodaran

#70. Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

Warren Buffett

#71. All your THOUGHTS, are either an 'investment' to your well-being or a 'cost' to your well- being! Are your investments growing or the costs are too high..Think about it !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#72. It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day. You

Brian Tracy

#73. Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.

Felix Rohatyn

#74. Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.
Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Gyan Nagpal

#75. Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

Billy Kennedy

#76. I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

Patricia A. Woertz

#77. To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Malcolm Gladwell

#78. It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

Will Rogers

#79. Everyone wants a conversation. They want inspiration. Inspire people with your website. Don't just interrupt, but interact. Asking about Return on Investment is the wrong question today. You should be asking about Return on Involvement.

Kevin Roberts

#80. Being on mission is not always about going to a specific place - it's about being intentional where you are. That's investment. And investment is always intentional. It's a lifestyle choice.

Dustin Willis