Top 100 Investment Business Quotes
#1. The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
#3. Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.
Peter Cundill
#4. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
Jennifer Pahlka
#5. SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.
Warren Buffett
#6. Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.
Howard Coble
#7. It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.
Margrethe Vestager
#8. Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#9. Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.
John Gokongwei
#10. 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.
Michael Lee-Chin
#12. I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.
Daymond John
#14. I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.
Mickey Drexler
#15. I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .
Chris Corrigan
#16. The business world traditionally rewards people for being closer to the top (case in point: outrageous CEO salaries) or for being closer to the transactions (investment bankers, salespeople).
Eric Schmidt
#17. I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them.
Robin Sacredfire
#18. Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.
Will Hutton
#19. Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.
Diane Helbig
#20. Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
John Sununu
#21. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.
Chris Corrigan
#23. 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
#24. I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment bank's name on business television is to hire a guy called a Chief Economist who will go and prognosticate.
Tim Harford
#25. In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
Evan Davis
#26. Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.
Seth Klarman
#27. A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
Charlie Munger
#28. To be successful, any business requires a concentrated investment of time and energy; wherein each stage of the development has its tactics and priorities, in regards to which activities and when it makes sense to invest the efforts in.
Sahara Sanders
#29. 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
#30. As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
Harold Ford Jr.
#31. Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success ... all at the same time ... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
Blake Mycoskie
#32. In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.
Sophie Kinsella
#33. I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.
Warren Buffett
#34. Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#35. People who sell advertising are called "account executives." People who sell customers work in "business development." People who sell companies are "investment bankers." And people who sell themselves are called "politicians." ==========
Anonymous
#36. Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.
John F. Kennedy
#37. If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Jim Rohn
#38. Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.
John Elkington
#39. 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
#40. Housing is the favorite investment of the middle class and moderately well-to-do, but true wealth always consists primarily of financial and business assets.
Thomas Piketty
#41. There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#42. Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffett
#43. Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices
Warren Buffett
#44. ...it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you
Kenneth L. Fisher
#45. My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Jim Rohn
#46. 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
#47. The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.
Yelena Baturina
#48. Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
Christie Hefner
#50. Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.
Robert Kiyosaki
#51. The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than human need is the determining condition of private investment.
Michael Parenti
#52. The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.
Warren Buffett
#53. If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
Claudia Jones
#54. We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
Amah Lambert
#55. The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.
Warren Buffett
#56. Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
Vivek Wadhwa
#57. I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.
Jim Butcher
#58. If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.
Louis R. Chenevert
#59. Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.
Robert Kiyosaki
#60. Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.
Ryan Lilly
#61. Each space has a role to play, but while to date the majority of media investment and energy has really focused on the bought on the bought space ... this balance is shifting to a much stronger emphasis on owned and generated spaces.
Jamie Leach
#62. Despite our policy of candor, we will discuss our activities in marketable securities only to the extent legally required. Good investment ideas are rare, valuable and subject to competitive appropriation just as good product or business acquisition ideas are.
Warren Buffett
#63. A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
David Gates
#64. A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.
Ron Rash
#65. The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.
Glenn Hubbard
#66. Pueblo investment properties, and he had mortgaged the ranch to raise added investment funds for still more business concerns. At the time, with the economy booming
Matt Braun
#67. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.
Sarah Carter
#68. I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Paul Ryan
#69. Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt.
Murray Rothbard
#70. Nobody was ever hiring me just because I knew how to write code, they're hiring us to solve a problem that exists in their business. The coding was the medium to get to that goal, when I focused on the goal rather than the skill it made it easier to justify my services as an investment.
Liam Veitch
#71. Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.
Warren Buffett
#72. To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.
Charles M. Schwab
#73. When a designer gives you a bill, what do you see it as? An expense, right? When a designer gives me a bill, I see it as an investment. For me, it is something that appreciates and helps your business grow.
Neil Patel
#74. London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy.
Nicola Sturgeon
#75. There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.
Jamie Dimon
#77. Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
Muhammad Yunus
#78. Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Peter Diamandis
#79. Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut - spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.
Joel Greenblatt
#80. Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What's the difference? It is easy - if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money.
F. Marco-Serrano
#81. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
#82. Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#83. A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.
Martin Feldstein
#84. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.
Roy H. Williams
#85. Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
Ian Hutchinson
#86. I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
Barbara Corcoran
#87. Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Michael Ovitz
#88. No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.
Strive Masiyiwa
#89. One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills
#90. First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
Vint Cerf
#91. Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.
John Key
#92. I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
Ed Rendell
#93. In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.
Pierre Omidyar
#94. While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment.
Brian Solis
#95. Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.
W. Edwards Deming
#96. It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.
Robert Kiyosaki
#97. I believe this Emperador Distillers investment in Whyte & Mackay is good for the Philippines as a whole, not only beneficial to our business.
Andrew Tan
#99. While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth.
Maelle Gavet
#100. To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
Stephen Pagliuca
