Investment Quotes

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

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.

A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease.

Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

Solyndra is a great investment in our future

The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

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.

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

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

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

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

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.

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

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

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.

Proof that no investment is yours forever.

We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.

I don't give investment advice.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.