Quotes For Young Investors

#1. My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.

Ivan Boesky

#2. My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Barack Obama

#3. The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

#4. Riding is within one's soul.

Ben Tolosa

#5. A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

Will Cuppy

#6. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#7. A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.

Tim O'Reilly

#8. I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Aaron Patzer

#9. I'll see you in Dreamland.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Believe for long enough and it will come to pass. Believe it might be so, and it will be so.

Terry Brooks

#11. Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

Jose Ferreira

#12. Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Steven Rattner

#13. Many people have wonderful dreams, but die without realizing them. It is because they do not know how to get a hold of a dream and work with it to make it happen. Everything happens by laws."

(From the Secrets To Divine Manifestations by Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

#14. You can't train them to express their anger in mature ways simply by getting upset at them and forcing them to stop venting their anger.

Gary Chapman