Investment Quotes

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Everything I do in investment is just very different.

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

Marketing is an investment, not a cost.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

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.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you've got a terrific investment.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

Every advertisement is part of the long term investment in the personality of the brand.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

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

Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.

Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.

We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

As long as you have more cash flowing in than flowing out, your investment is a good investment.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Public education is an investment in our future.

The best investment opportunities are often scary.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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

It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.