Quotes About Investment Value

#1. 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

#2. What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

James Surowiecki

#3. Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Simon Mainwaring

#4. Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Bill Gross

#5. If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

Fela Durotoye

#6. 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

#7. If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.

Seth Klarman

#8. When we want a man to do something for us, we are asking for his investment and commitment- however big/small ... Show our commitment first by doing something to add value to the relationship. Something he perceives as value.

Renee Wade

#9. The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Benjamin Graham

#10. Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

Seth Klarman

#11. While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

Seth Klarman

#12. 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

#13. In order for capitalism to evolve from its current toxic expression, I propose the value of international currencies be tied to an Index of Human Productive Output. The emphasis being on human productivity not inanimate machines and virtual assets created by the mirage of the investment banker

Said Elias Dawlabani

#14. $16 billion in complex securities whose value ultimately turned on the ability of a Las Vegas stripper with five investment properties, or a Mexican strawberry picker with a single $750,000 home, to make rapidly rising interest payments.

Michael Lewis

#15. Some only learn the value of time when it's too late!

Stephen Richards

#16. Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.

Aswath Damodaran

#17. When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.

Seth Klarman

#18. I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

Seth Klarman

#19. That's the value of a college education ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Gaston Caperton

#20. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

Kevin Kelly

#21. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.

J.R. Rim

#22. gold is valuable as a currency or investment because we believe it is valuable (which is the same reason for valuing money itself). Gold's value as currency is an abstract social construct.

Paul Vigna

#23. Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

Helene D. Gayle

#24. Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Warren Buffett

#25. The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life

Sunday Adelaja

#26. While knowing how to value businesses is essential for investment success, the first and perhaps most important step in the investment process is knowing where to look for opportunities

Seth Klarman

#27. Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it's a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company's value - don't decrease faster than they anticipate.

Peter Thiel

#28. 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

#29. Excellent value relative to the week investment of time ... To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

William Wrigley Jr.

#30. Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.

Sam Shepard

#31. You will not invest in yourself if you think you are not worth it

Saji Ijiyemi

#32. Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

Lisa Gansky

#33. The greatest investment you will ever make is the investment in yourself

Saji Ijiyemi

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

Patricia A. Woertz

#35. A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.

Aswath Damodaran

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

Warren Buffett

#37. Time is priceless gift.
Time defined moments.
Time lost can not be redefined.
May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

Seth Klarman

#39. The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

Warren Buffett

#40. There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Malcolm Forbes

#41. Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.

Tony Hsieh

#42. We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Joseph Cook

#43. The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

Benjamin Graham

#44. I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Taylor Swift

#45. 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