Investment Quotes

‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Goodness is the only investment that never fails.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.’ – Kevin Brady

‘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

‘You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.’ – Michelle Obama

‘We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.’ – Deb Haaland

‘Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.’ – Muhtar Kent

‘A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.’ – Gloria Reuben

‘View health as an investment, not an expense.’ – John Quelch

‘The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can’t easily recognize that they are the same.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.’ – London Breed

‘In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Public education is an investment in our future.’ – Matt Blunt

‘No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.’ – Brad Henry

‘I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.’ – Robert Trout

‘Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.’ – Ike Skelton

‘The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.’ – Steve Jobs

‘Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.’ – Ed Markey

‘There’s more honor in investment management than in investment banking.’ – Charlie Munger

‘When the students are occupied, they’re not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.’ – Arlen Specter

‘Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not – water is political, and litigious. Transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, so buying up water rights did not make a lot of sense to me, unless I was pursuing a greater fool theory of investment – which was not my intention.’ – Michael Burry

‘Enjoy the magic of compounding returns. Even modest investments made in one’s early 20s are likely to grow to staggering amounts over the course of an investment lifetime.’ – John C. Bogle

‘Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.’ – Arne Glimcher

‘You’ve never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.’ – Kevin McCarthy

‘I take a massage each week. This isn’t an indulgence, it’s an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I have plenty of investments that I wish I’d never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.’ – Sam Altman

‘Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.’ – Jim Rogers

‘A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.’ – Fred MacMurray

‘If you’ve got an industry where you’ve got massive investment, it doesn’t matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.’ – Arthur Scargill

‘No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.’ – Joe Biden

‘Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.’ – H. Robert Horvitz

‘The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I use Mac. Not because it’s more secure than everything else – because it is actually less secure than Windows – but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘Cash – in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits – is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.’ – Suze Orman

‘Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.’ – Bob Graham

‘If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.’ – Anil Agarwal

‘In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.’ – Marvin Ammori

‘Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.’ – James Surowiecki

‘White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn’t demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn’t demand that somebody be in place driving.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘Investment comes to a halt in a country where sit-ins and protest rallies lead to political chaos.’ – Nawaz Sharif

‘Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates’ garage.’ – Jonathan Raymond

‘A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what’s best for all.’ – Cornel West

‘I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don’t knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don’t miss anything about it.’ – Hugh Downs

‘There are three main pillars of China’s economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.’ – Lou Jiwei

‘You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound.’ – Bill Maris

‘Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.’ – John C. Bogle

‘Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.’ – Andrew Lo

‘Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.’ – Major Owens

‘I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.’ – John Paulson

‘Social Security is an insurance policy. It’s a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we’re contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?’ – Laurence D. Fink

‘Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.’ – Mitt Romney

‘You don’t need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation – meaning capital gains.’ – Carlos Slim

‘I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.’ – Wilson Greatbatch

‘If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.’ – Gina Rinehart

‘I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn’t have a formal face-time culture – and I felt empowered by that.’ – Dara Khosrowshahi

‘If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors’ and mutual fund managers’ retirement.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Investment in people is often regarded as a cost, but it is a source of medium to long-term corporate value.’ – Fumio Kishida

‘Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.’ – Alex Berenson

‘One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.’ – Joao Lourenco

‘If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.’ – Jack Welch

‘The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.’ – Mark Skousen

‘We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We’re just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers’ lives better and users’ lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we’re trying to answer the question: ‘How can we maximize a content developers’ investment?” – Gabe Newell

‘If the public understands the central bank’s views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.’ – Jerome Powell

‘My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.’ – Peter Schiff

‘In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?’ – Li Lu

‘Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.’ – Janet Yellen

‘Even if you don’t care about the environment whatsoever, solar panels are really cool, and are an investment because they save money in the long run.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘The sofa is a really important investment for anybody, and I don’t mean financially. You need to find a really great sofa that can transition with you, and you can build from there.’ – Jeremiah Brent

‘A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.’ – Daymond John

‘The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.’ – Judith Butler

‘Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.’ – Douglas R. Oberhelman

‘We are seeing more managed money and, to an extent, institutional money entering the space. Anecdotally speaking, I know of many people who are working at hedge funds or other investment managers who are trading cryptocurrency personally, the question is, when do people start doing it with their firms and funds?’ – Olaf Carlson-Wee

‘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

‘Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you’re looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.’ – Lonnie Johnson

‘An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Exercise extreme caution if you receive an unsolicited communication – meaning you didn’t ask for it and don’t know the sender – about an investment opportunity.’ – Perianne Boring

‘Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.’ – Barton Seaver

‘The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.’ – John Maynard Keynes

‘I’ve usually used the phrase ‘stay the course’ as one of the great rules of investment success.’ – John C. Bogle

‘One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador – anywhere in the world – is to promote bilateral trade and investment.’ – James Costos

‘Investment in our people through education, no matter at what level, is an investment in economic development.’ – Kay Ivey

‘Stock market goes up or down, and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.’ – John Paulson

‘Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.’ – Dambisa Moyo

‘Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it’s not because they couldn’t do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would’ve been called the ‘soft stuff.’ You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.’ – Douglas Conant

‘Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘We want to galvanize people’s imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale – more customers.’ – Frederick W. Smith

‘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

‘There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors – including all of the big investment banks – bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.’ – James Surowiecki

‘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

‘Unfortunately, from my days as national coach were going backwards in terms of we dont see it as an investment, we see it as an expense. We just have too short-term thinking, there just arent enough people with a broader vision as to how we can actually we can make Australia a force in world football.’ – Angelos Postecoglou

‘The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.’ – Alberto Gonzales

‘There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.’ – Mohammad bin Salman

‘There are opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, so yes back home we are talking about investment opportunities in Morocco for various sectors of our economy and we will continue to do that.’ – Donald Evans

‘Deeper investment in green energy technology will create millions of high-paying American jobs that cannot be outsourced, rebuilding our nation’s manufacturing economy, starting with wind turbines and solar panels stamped ‘Made in America.” – Ted Lieu

‘What I’m primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don’t do.’ – Roustam Tariko

‘We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.’ – Roger McNamee

‘Its success lies in the fact that it’s an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.’ – James Roosevelt

‘Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.’ – Liya Kebede

‘For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it’s those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.’ – Hilary Rosen

‘Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there’s a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there’s the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.’ – Cameron Winklevoss

‘I’ve nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn’t an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It’s bigger than any hedge fund. It’s more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.’ – Nouriel Roubini

‘Technology is changing so fast that investment in hardware is getting riskier everyday. On the other hand, whether it is traditional computers or smart gadgets which are part of the convergence technologies of the future, some planning of hardware needs is still important.’ – Sucheta Dalal

‘The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.’ – Fareed Zakaria

‘One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.’ – Fred Wilson

‘The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.’ – Seth Berkley

‘Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don’t be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it’s something called a ‘dead-cat bounce.’ People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.’ – Kurt Eichenwald

‘The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.’ – Jim Cramer

‘The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years – one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing – is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.’ – Gary Locke

‘Trade deficits are OK under certain circumstance. 1. An emerging nation imports capital goods necessary to enhance its productivity. 2. A developed nation, with a current account surplus, uses some of its investment income to finance the purchases of additional consumer goods from abroad.’ – Peter Schiff

‘I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil’s Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they’ve been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.’ – N. Scott Momaday

‘Yes, our competition may have significantly more engineers or significantly more R&D investment. On the other hand, we have significantly more freedom. We have the freedom to innovate.’ – Lisa Su

‘I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk – replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of – is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.’ – Mark Cuban

‘Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.’ – Tim Bishop

‘What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘My experience as energy and climate change secretary – in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind – was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.’ – Ed Davey

‘My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.’ – Gautam Adani

‘You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.’ – Adena Friedman

‘It’s worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.’ – Ash Sarkar

‘People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.’ – Walter Annenberg

‘We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands – indeed, compel – the present generation to bear hardship and make sacrifices. Those who are employed have a duty to the future of India. They have to be more productive and consume less so that resources can be made available for investment and for programmes to help poor.’ – Rajiv Gandhi

‘Life science is an investment for the future.’ – Tasuku Honjo

‘Eliminate emotion from your investment program.’ – John C. Bogle

‘Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.’ – Andrew Lo

‘We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are based on the faith that we are a decent, open, and generous people. This is our identity.’ – Shelby Steele

‘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

‘I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!’ – Bill Gates

‘Income splitting is not a wise investment for Canadians.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn’t go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won’t have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn’t take much for spending to spiral out of control.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.’ – James Heckman

‘Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.’ – Gary Herbert

‘From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn’t getting anything out of my investment in the school.’ – August Wilson

‘We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.’ – Olusegun Obasanjo

‘Without investment, you cannot have jobs.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It’s the same with investment.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘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

‘When making an investment, the people are more important than the product.’ – Theo Paphitis

‘As the world has become more predatory and aggressive, my impression is that the investment banking business has moved from being relationship-oriented to being increasingly transaction-oriented.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘I personally feel like if I were to talk to myself when I was a trainee I’d like to tell myself that every minute of me dreaming and enjoying what I do is all investment in what I’m doing for the future.’ – Rose

‘Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment – in them and in the future of our own country.’ – Pramila Jayapal

‘Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.’ – Martin Feldstein

‘Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that will also hold down investment.’ – Jerome Powell

‘When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.’ – Carl Icahn

‘I’m going to reveal the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It’s a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.’ – John C. Bogle

‘Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.’ – Gerry Schwartz

‘Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm the gift of being private. My only message to them now is take my investment and let’s go, go, go.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to ‘Cathy’ and then tell you, ‘No, it’s Kathy with a K’ – it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.’ – Walter Kirn

‘In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.’ – Edward C. Prescott

‘What I really like about Woody Allen’s films is that there’s a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about – how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.’ – Sally Rooney

‘Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company – great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there’s a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.’ – Li Shufu

‘I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you’re going to get the return. There’s no doubt about that. It’s a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.’ – Jon Tester

‘A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people’s voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I bought a Rolex Submariner. I had never really owned a nice watch like that, and it was a big investment, so that’s my go-to. I always wear it when I travel with suits and stuff.’ – Auston Matthews

‘The culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty and investment, with funds run by investment professionals. The firm I worked with, Wellington Management Co., they had one fund. That was very typical in the industry… investment professionals focused on long-term investing.’ – John C. Bogle

‘Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama’s future than an investment in education.’ – Bob Riley

‘Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.’ – Susan Collins

‘If I’m a commodity, it wouldn’t be a wise idea to buy stock in me – although, in the long run, maybe I’m a slow growth investment.’ – Tim Robbins

‘But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.’ – Kent Conrad

‘In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.’ – Paul Kagame

‘There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Every time in this century we’ve lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.’ – Jack Kemp

‘If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.’ – James E. Rogers

‘Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.’ – Said Musa

‘People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.’ – Keith Haring

‘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

‘I’ve leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we’re keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!’ – Ted Allen

‘The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.’ – Drew Bledsoe

‘The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.’ – Alex Winter

‘We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.’ – Asa Hutchinson

‘Tax cuts are an investment in working families.’ – Tommy Thompson

‘Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.’ – Sanjay Kumar

‘While America’s infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.’ – John Engler

‘I can’t think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we’ll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we’ll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs.’ – John Anderson

‘The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.’ – Paul Gillmor

‘The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.’ – Estelle Morris

‘So if we’re going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing – today that doesn’t matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers – you really need to have a cross-platform story.’ – Miguel de Icaza

‘But a lot of businesses out there don’t see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it’s still a hard sell for people.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.’ – Arthur C. Nielsen

‘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

‘Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.’ – Diane Watson

‘We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.’ – Gerhard Schroder

‘You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just – that was America.’ – Paul A. Volcker

‘Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.’ – Susan George

‘Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.’ – Susan George

‘Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I’m writing myself, but equally closely technically.’ – Marilyn Hacker

‘Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.’ – Paul Cellucci

‘People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.’ – John Hume

‘Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy – most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.’ – Jay Inslee

‘But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they’re teams that don’t have a lot on the table. They’ve long since not had any serious investment in their team.’ – Jerry Jones

‘People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.’ – Richard Neal

‘Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.’ – Anthony Holden

‘Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.’ – Jesse James Garrett

‘Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don’t lump yourself with capital investment.’ – Ann Macbeth

‘The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.’ – Aaron Klug

‘The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.’ – Dee Hock

‘This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.’ – Donald Evans

‘I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.’ – Michael C. Burgess

‘If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.’ – Ron Chernow

‘Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.’ – Peter Bart

‘Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.’ – Max von Sydow

‘With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland

‘As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.’ – Rudolf Hilferding

‘From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.’ – Ferdinand Lassalle

‘My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!’ – Randy Castillo

‘We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.’ – John W. Snow

‘Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.’ – John W. Snow

‘You can’t have personal investors anymore because it’s too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.’ – Stephen Sondheim

‘It’s one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.’ – Henry Kravis

‘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

‘The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.’ – Toshihiko Fukui

‘Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.’ – Toshihiko Fukui

‘The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.’ – John W. Thompson

‘One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.’ – John W. Thompson

‘The whole purpose was to say that it doesn’t have to be a zero sum. It’s not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘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

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

‘We’ve complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.’ – Stephen Cambone

‘We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.’ – Kit Bond

‘Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.’ – John Bruton

‘So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.’ – Daniel Yergin

‘European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.’ – John Bruton

‘The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.’ – Richard Leakey

‘American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.’ – John Shadegg

‘To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.’ – Grace Napolitano

‘If Congress doesn’t raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.’ – Grace Napolitano

‘For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president’s idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.’ – Grace Napolitano

‘Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.’ – Grace Napolitano

‘My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don’t have to leave.’ – Tahar Ben Jelloun

‘Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.’ – John L. Lewis

‘We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios – right now in US Treasury Bonds.’ – Jose Ramos-Horta

‘On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it’s there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.’ – Rocco Buttiglione

‘If you search for poverty, you’ll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.’ – Rocco Buttiglione

‘International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.’ – Steve Bartlett

‘We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.’ – Gordon Brown

‘The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.’ – Timothy Geithner

‘I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it’ll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.’ – Meg Whitman

‘You don’t make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you’re-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don’t know what’s going to happen.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits – a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.’ – Chris Christie

‘We are Americans. We – we – we are – we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are – we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.’ – Feisal Abdul Rauf

‘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

‘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

‘Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as ‘investment.” – Paul Ryan

‘Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.’ – Anthony Weiner

‘I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country – don’t get me wrong about that – but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.’ – Rick Perry

‘Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule.’ – Fareed Zakaria

‘Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.’ – Lucas Papademos

‘We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.’ – Mariano Rajoy

‘Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they’re still HIV negative.’ – Charlize Theron

‘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.’ – Christian Siriano

‘I know about investment. It’s really obvious – you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.’ – Mel B

‘You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It’s just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.’ – Mike Lee

‘Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that’s broken down all barriers of entry. I think it’s a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.’ – Matthew Lillard

‘I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.’ – Daymond John

‘I’ve come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I’ve also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.’ – Daymond John

‘There’s a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They’ve been buying things because they were cheap.’ – Michael Kors

‘But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.’ – Bill Nye

‘Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.’ – Cynthia McKinney

‘The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.’ – Tony Wilson

‘Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.’ – Anders Fogh Rasmussen

‘Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – whatever platforms emerge – we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.’ – Bob Iger

‘We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.’ – Carlos Ghosn

‘Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full ‘Taxmageddon’ scenario, President Obama’s health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.’ – John Cornyn

‘The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you’ll get a great return.’ – Jim Loehr

‘A one-time tax does not get figured into people’s investment decisions.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.’ – Geoff Hoon

‘This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure.’ – Cory Booker

‘Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses – my husband always laughs when I call them ‘investment pieces.” – Emily Giffin

‘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

‘What I love about a play is that it’s such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.’ – Laura Linney

‘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.’ – Bev Perdue

‘Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they’ve redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘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

‘Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘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.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.’ – Mohammed Morsi

‘Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.’ – Hu Jintao

‘We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn’t need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.’ – Traian Basescu

‘The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.’ – Frances O’Grady

‘Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.’ – Lee Myung-bak

‘I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.’ – Lee Myung-bak

‘For us, from Korea’s perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.’ – Lee Myung-bak

‘From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.’ – Lee Myung-bak

‘The investment we’re all looking for is actually saving labor… Look at what the internet is doing to retail.’ – James Chanos

‘Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won’t grow any faster than the rate of inflation.’ – Suze Orman

‘I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.’ – Suze Orman

‘We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain’s probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we’ve done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.’ – Vince Cable

‘Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.’ – Vince Cable

‘We’ve got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas – you know particularly from the big Asian countries – they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don’t want any doubts cast upon that.’ – Vince Cable

‘The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain’s long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.’ – Vince Cable

‘One of the jewels in the crown of Labour’s time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.’ – David Miliband

‘It’s important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.’ – Andrew Lo

‘I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.’ – Niklas Zennstrom

‘I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.’ – Doug Ose

‘Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘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

‘We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.’ – Gary Locke

‘When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.’ – Jaron Lanier

‘If you’re a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.’ – Vito Fossella

‘Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.’ – Hans Rosling

‘We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I’d like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.’ – Yuri Milner

‘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

‘Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they’d fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.’ – Dean Norris

‘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.’ – H. G. Bissinger

‘Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘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

‘There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.’ – Evangeline Lilly

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

‘The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn’t protect the environment unless it’s regulated, it doesn’t train your workforce unless it’s regulated, and it doesn’t give you the long-term investment you want.’ – Ken Livingstone

‘The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.’ – Mick Cornett

‘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

‘Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: ‘What is the return on this investment?” – Frederick W. Smith

‘The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.’ – Frederick W. Smith

‘We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we’re the ones that are generating the economic activity.’ – Michael Nutter

‘I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.’ – Ken Livingstone

‘We have had scarce investment in women… One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.’ – Michelle Bachelet

‘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.’ – Cristina Kirchner

‘The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.’ – Donald Luskin

‘The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.’ – Donald Luskin

‘If you invent something, you’re doing a creative act. It’s like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It’s years of your life, it’s your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.’ – James Dyson

‘As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it’s like we’re downgrading if you look at the investment in education… that’s the thing that worries me.’ – will.i.am

‘I don’t give investment advice.’ – Craig McCaw

‘The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.’ – Christina Romer

‘In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.’ – Mark Skousen

‘Even though I’ve reached retirement age, I still plan to work – writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.’ – Mark Skousen

‘When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there’s a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.’ – Irene Rosenfeld

‘If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there’s no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.’ – Jeb Hensarling

‘Let’s be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I’d read the ‘WSJ’ in the morning, and for years I have done that.’ – Chetan Bhagat

‘I have nothing against investment banking, but it’s like massaging money rather than creating money.’ – Michio Kaku

‘I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.’ – Carol Roth

‘I’m the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.’ – Josh Mandel

‘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

‘You can’t fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.’ – James Surowiecki

‘What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.’ – James Surowiecki

‘You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It’s, uh… changed. It’s now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it’s still a very beautiful part of New York.’ – Jay McInerney

‘I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you’re doing something 60 to 104 pages, that’s a really big investment for an artist. So unless you’ve got someone who wants to pay you while you’re doing it or up front, it’s kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you’re the artist yourself.’ – Samuel R. Delany

‘I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of ‘One Life to Live.’ I love the show, I’m a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.’ – Kassie DePaiva

‘I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.’ – Diego Della Valle

‘First of all, at any company, the investment in research and development in the products is the lifeblood, so that is a critical element of anyone’s future going forward.’ – Stephen Elop

‘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

‘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.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘Postwar U.S. was the world’s leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee

‘If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.’ – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

‘It’s the government’s job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it’s the government’s duty to inspire confidence.’ – Simon Cowell

‘Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.’ – John Katzman

‘My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.’ – Fred Wilson

‘The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn’t let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.’ – Fred Wilson

‘Foreclosure is to no one’s benefit. I’ve heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.’ – Henry Paulson

‘Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.’ – Michael Ovitz

‘Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.’ – Jeremy Grantham

‘If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.’ – Russell Simmons

‘Isn’t it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it’s most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?’ – Chip Conley

‘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.’ – Brian Greene

‘Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they’re all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘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.’ – Rick Perry

‘As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn’t working out. But in science, if something isn’t working, you have to toss it out and try something else.’ – Antony Garrett Lisi

‘Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that’s a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don’t make those investments.’ – Emily Oster

‘I don’t take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire – why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?’ – Felix Dennis

‘I do quite like Gehry’s Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it’s seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it’s seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.’ – David Chipperfield

‘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

‘A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.’ – Dan Gelber

‘The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley’s tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.’ – Geoff Mulgan

‘Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.’ – Harsha Bhogle

‘Acumen Fund’s patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya’s smallholder farmers.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone ‘just doing my job’ or the infernal self-checkout machine.’ – Julian Baggini

‘The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘Oil is a very valuable resource for life – electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that’s what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.’ – Hugo Chavez

‘Girls will go out and spend $200 or $300 dollars on a pair of shoes, but you should also be taking care of your skin. That’s the first thing people see. I think it’s an investment. It’s a lot cheaper to use really great products now, rather than trying to fix problematic skin later on in life. That’s always been my motto.’ – Keshia Knight Pulliam

‘Both France and Britain are supportive of India’s bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.’ – Salman Khurshid

‘When you’re an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there’s a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them.’ – Sean Pertwee

‘I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.’ – Arjun Rampal

‘If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you’re doing it.’ – Tony Campolo

‘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.

‘Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.’ – Mary Schapiro

‘Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook’s reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking’s convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn’t do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can’t really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work – making an investment in the future of humanity.’ – Ted Turner

‘When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.’ – Regina Brett

‘I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea – DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘You ask for your audience’s investment in your music; you’re in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China’s largest investment funds.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘I am selective. If I do splash out, it’s an investment, and I wear things for years.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn’t otherwise be available.’ – Vint Cerf

‘If I had one piece of advice to tell an entrepreneur, I always say, ‘You have to have emotional investment in what you’re working on.’ That’s what we lacked at Odeo.’ – Biz Stone

‘What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.’ – Richard Attias

‘I’ve seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way – people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.’ – Tom Rath

‘For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings – on tiny margins and with minimal investment – might not be the worst fiscal training.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Take the time to shop for yourself and cook. All of this is an investment in yourself, and if you’re not going to invest time and money in what you put in your body, then what are you going to spend money on? It’s kind of the most important thing.’ – Joe Bastianich

‘When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it’s a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.’ – Nate Berkus

‘Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It’s like any investment. After all, you wouldn’t put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn’t you do the same when investing in society?’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘Shouldn’t you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives – not profits – are at stake.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I’d marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn’t raised to set the world on fire.’ – Dani Shapiro

‘Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.’ – Vivek Wadhwa

‘During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.’ – Vivek Wadhwa

‘Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.’ – Vivek Wadhwa

‘Fortunately, there’s another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward – as an investment in our economy.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I have nothing against investment banking, but it’s like massaging money rather than creating money. If you’re in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.’ – Michio Kaku

‘I don’t play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there’s conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter’s true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying.’ – Kurt Braunohler

‘Fledgling designers need investment – but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman’s shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer’s namesake line, but only as what the French call a ‘danseuse,’ a plaything.’ – Suzy Menkes

‘Formula 1 will always have high and strong investment. Who can’t make these investments will race in other series.’ – Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

‘When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S.’ – Bob Diamond

‘From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.’ – Julius Genachowski

‘In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It’s important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.’ – Julius Genachowski

‘I want to preserve the free and open Internet – the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.’ – Julius Genachowski

‘In the end, it’s a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance – not to take over their country – but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.’ – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

‘The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.’ – John Kline

‘There’s the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It’s not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it’s like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.’ – David Chang

‘I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I’m making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‘Age War.’ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘During my time as a state legislator, I’ve pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.’ – Hakeem Jeffries

‘In Congress, I’ll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.’ – Hakeem Jeffries

‘I’m pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers’ needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.’ – Sylvia Mathews Burwell

‘India’s growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘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

‘It’s always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, ‘I don’t need any more money. I’m good.’ Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you’re crazy when you say you don’t need any more money. Who says that?’ – Dr. Dre

‘Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. ‘This isn’t charity,’ some donors take pains to claim, ‘This is an investment.’ Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country’s security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world’s renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.’ – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

‘Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.’ – Lou Jiwei

‘Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.’ – Robert Zoellick

‘While U.K. is one of India’s most important trade and investment partners, India has become one of the largest investors in the U.K.’ – Preneet Kaur

‘India’s dynamic growth, coupled with its large reservoir of skilled workforce, its commitment to democracy, and the rule of law, all taken together make India a very attractive investment destination.’ – Preneet Kaur

‘A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment – especially in the West Bank – is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘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

‘If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government’s investment in private health care.’ – Timothy Noah

‘To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you’re a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.’ – Natalie Massenet

‘I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of vintage and High Street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. I always go for comfort, and like feeling confident and casual.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘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

‘You don’t have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.’ – Francis Spufford

‘Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call ‘the law of large numbers.” – Alex Berenson

‘The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.’ – Alex Berenson

‘Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.’ – Alex Berenson

‘Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.’ – Alex Berenson

‘The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.’ – Alex Berenson

‘Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.’ – Alex Berenson

‘After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq’s unemployment rate tops 50 percent.’ – Alex Berenson

‘Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn’t go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.’ – Aleksey Igudesman

‘We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.’ – Erik Paulsen

‘I’m delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients.’ – Diane Garnick

‘If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.’ – Victor Ponta

‘Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece’s future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.’ – Ali Babacan

‘The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘I plan to open Mexico’s energy sector to national and foreign private investment.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.’ – Anthony Foxx

‘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

‘It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.’ – Charles Duhigg

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

‘One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because of my investment, we got promoted.’ – Vincent Tan

‘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

‘A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.’ – Bob Ehrlich

‘Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital – oceans of capital – that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘Asia has been by all accounts an incredible investment made by Yahoo.’ – Ross Levinsohn

‘I almost didn’t turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.’ – Matt Kuchar

‘The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.’ – Wang Jianlin

‘What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe – if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined.’ – Paul Singer

‘A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘The way forward for Africa is investment.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened – was it just the arrogance of power? – that narrowed Labour’s vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.’ – Rory Bremner

‘At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.’ – Donald Bren

‘Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I’m a real saver: frugal – like my parents.’ – Richard C. Armitage

‘The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country’s future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.’ – Gina Rinehart

‘Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of ‘Microsoft Money’ and Intuit’s ‘Quicken.’ Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting – too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.’ – Aaron Patzer

‘Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.’ – John Gokongwei

‘Chicago’s privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm’s investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.’ – Rick Perlstein

‘A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.’ – Kara Swisher

‘There’s no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.’ – Marc Faber

‘My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.’ – Marc Faber

‘The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Who is Antonio Weiss? He’s the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.’ – Li Keqiang

‘China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further.’ – Li Keqiang

‘You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right – and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: ‘How do we fix this?” – Lynn Jurich

‘Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let’s call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.’ – Kenneth Fisher

‘Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.’ – Andrew Forrest

‘I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little – perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.’ – Dan Levitan

‘We aren’t going to let our first investment be the best.’ – Dan Levitan

‘To me it’s incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don’t destroy jobs.’ – Stephen Pagliuca

‘It is important for investors to understand what they do and don’t know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘You, your employer and your plan’s investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you – All Of You – have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are ‘gated’ – meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don’t buy them.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘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

‘I’m not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.’ – Abdallah Salem el-Badri

‘We’ve always been modestly leveraged, and we’ve never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.’ – Warren Stephens

‘What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man – someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital – and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.’ – Warren Stephens

‘We don’t think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.’ – Warren Stephens

‘I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.’ – David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

‘Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.’ – Charles Platt

‘Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small – less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘You might have a worry that’s so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.’ – Roz Chast

‘Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.’ – Beny Steinmetz

‘Legg Mason’s structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and Royce.’ – Nelson Peltz

‘Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you’re on that track, and then the market collapses, and you’re out of a job. You’re trying to save your investors’ investment, and it doesn’t work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.’ – Nick Woodman

‘Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.’ – Kerry Stokes

‘It’s very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment… because it doesn’t take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.’ – Joel Salatin

‘I was able to use credit default swaps to protect not only my investments but the hundreds of jobs that exist because of my investment. I understand the dangers of credit default swaps and the benefits of credit default swaps.’ – Jeff Greene

‘A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.’ – Uday Kotak

‘If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors.’ – Uday Kotak

‘Today’s energy mix is the result of yesterday’s consumer habits, considerable investment, and various political decisions. The potential of renewable energies, now a well-established fact, is undeniable if given the time to arrive at the technical and economic maturity that will free them from subsidization policies.’ – Christophe de Margerie

‘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

‘American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people – in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K., outside London and the southeast of England when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘Sporting success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.’ – Goodluck Jonathan

‘I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.’ – Daniel S. Loeb

‘In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excuse after excuse for why this non-investment investment lost so much of its value so fast. One was that hackers attacked some of the exchanges for Bitcoins and crippled it. Really? A hacker can wreck an entire market?’ – Kurt Eichenwald

‘Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don’t want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.’ – Sam Altman

‘Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.’ – Carlos Slim

‘For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.’ – Alexey Miller

‘One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one’s capacity for happiness, but also one’s efficiency.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.’ – Rashid Johnson

‘Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We’ve been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there’s more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.’ – Astro Teller

‘When we say a show is successful, it’s because, relative to the investment, it’s successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation – did it attract the audience that it was built for.’ – Ted Sarandos

‘When the word ‘morality’ comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world’s resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?’ – Edmund Phelps

‘I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door – I’m aware of it.’ – Bill Maris

‘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

‘In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘One thing that has made us so successful is that we’ve never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want – not what the stockholders or the VCs want.’ – Jack Dangermond

‘As ambassador, I am focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Spain.’ – James Costos

‘People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession – it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It’s not good for the economy.’ – Peter Hargreaves

‘I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons – women and men – will travel into space.’ – Helen Sharman

‘I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that’s restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it’s a different one, but I think we shouldn’t shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.’s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.’ – John Sulston

‘I’m extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It’s a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It’s the best place to invest.’ – Christoffel Wiese

‘As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).’ – Shinzo Abe

‘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

‘I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.’ – Clive Granger

‘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

‘Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants.’ – David Sax

‘I might make an investment and lose some money, but that’s something I can recover from.’ – Ronda Rousey

‘I don’t think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.’ – Jamshyd Godrej

‘We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.’ – Sergey Galitsky

‘I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.’ – Chung Mong-joon

‘My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they’ve internalized that.’ – Elise Broach

‘After ‘The Sisters Brothers,’ I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.’ – Patrick deWitt

‘When you look at this and where it’s all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It’s very hard, it’s very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it’s a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.’ – Brendan Iribe

‘The Golden State has lost its luster. We’ve got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We’re going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we’re going to stay the Golden State.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa

‘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

‘The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain – which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship – make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment.’ – Ratan Tata

‘Companies with significant revenue (more than $100 million) have, by definition, significant traction. They have proven out their thesis and can scale up or down as investment capital becomes available.’ – Jay Samit

‘Spice Market was just a big investment on lots of different levels.’ – Jean-Georges Vongerichten

‘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

‘In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers – whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives – greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.’ – Carol Loomis

‘We support an open Internet and having rules – the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.’ – Brian L. Roberts

‘I still think reading something like ‘Ulysses’ takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.’ – D. B. Weiss

‘Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded to spend the money wildly and borrow even more extravagantly on public works and other uneconomic forms of ‘investment.” – Murray Rothbard

‘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

‘We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war – it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction.’ – Tom Perez

‘We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.’ – Xavier Becerra

‘The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It’s not only by far the best and most advanced science, we’re driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well.’ – Craig Venter

‘The weirdest place someone has asked me for advice was at a party where there were a lot of A-list celebrities and super-wealthy people. There were people in the middle of mingling asking for investment advice, and I’m like, ‘Hey, I’m just here to dance. I’m here to have fun!” – Marcus Lemonis

‘I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn’t know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.’ – Marcus Lemonis

‘It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times.’ – John Quelch

‘We’re aiming to be the leading investment platform for the clean-energy economy.’ – Billy Parish

‘As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world’s largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.’ – Billy Parish

‘The ‘in’ campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.’ – Nigel Lawson

‘If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.’ – Theresa May

‘In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and – indeed often – volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.’ – Gordon Brown

‘If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they’re also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.’ – Gordon Brown

‘We don’t see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.’ – George Osborne

‘The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.’ – Mark Rutte

‘Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.’ – Martin McGuinness

‘Since JPMorgan Chase announced its surprise $2 billion-and-growing trading loss, there have been renewed calls from economists, pundits, and politicians to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking activities.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘It’s only natural that the heavy users help contribute to the investment to keep the Web healthy. That is the most important concept of net neutrality.’ – Lowell McAdam

‘Food stamps are an investment in our future.’ – Donna Brazile

‘Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.’ – Shakira

‘Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn’t mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘If you discourage saving and investment, that means you’re walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You’re discouraging good job creation and job growth.’ – Scott Garrett

‘Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.’ – Ted Deutch

‘We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.’ – Ron DeSantis

‘Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being family-friendly is a smart investment in their workforce and America’s future.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘A lack of reform – particularly in international tax – has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.’ – John Delaney

‘We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-level nuclear waste… if we’re ever to recoup that investment in the future… then we’re going to need some money to reopen Yucca Mountain.’ – Rodney Frelinghuysen

‘I think more civil society programs, more free enterprise, more contacts with their fellow brethren in Miami – that’s good for the long-term, and that’s an investment in America’s long-term relationship with the Cuban people, not the Cuban government.’ – Joe Garcia

‘The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.’ – Tom Graves

‘The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.’ – Gene Green

‘As a policy-maker in our country, I would much rather we have that investment in our refineries.’ – Gene Green

‘More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.’ – Richard Branson

‘I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘Ultimately the clothing company is a large investment on my part, and I’m taking a huge gamble. But having a focus away from the track is good for you.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘Connectivity offers a great opportunity for General Motors. When you look at the investment we have made in OnStar and putting 4GLT in and the access you have to not only put data in, and we haven’t really tapped into the data you can use from the vehicle.’ – Mary Barra

‘It’s inspiring to watch people love my dad and want to work with him. I feel that same investment in making sure people are happy.’ – Dylan Lauren

‘I bought a Cartier nail bracelet to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my blog. It’s an investment piece, but it’s simple enough to wear every day, and it’s something that will last forever.’ – Chiara Ferragni

‘I did not write any of the letters that were ever published as investment commentary.’ – Matt Bevin

‘I have 9 children; I’m a big believer in childhood education, but we’ve got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.’ – Matt Bevin

‘Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.’ – Larry Hogan

‘The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure.’ – Gina Raimondo

‘We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we’ve seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don’t have the education they need. I say let’s make this investment on the front end. I think it’ll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.’ – Bill Haslam

‘I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write – and people would read – a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I’m grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.’ – Rae Carson

‘With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.’ – Steve Hanke

‘We want to look at everything we can do that’s right and proper under federal law, and with federal laws to see that the children of America are given a chance to grow as strong, constructive, healthy human beings. It’s the best investment we can possibly make in America.’ – Janet Reno

‘We’re all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.’ – Janet Reno

‘My old firm, Goldman Sachs – traditionally, the best banks are leveraged 8:1. When we had the financial crisis in 2008, the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury.’ – Steve Bannon

‘At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you’ve got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.’ – Jeffrey Wright

‘We support regional generation, particularly for nuclear. It’s just a large investment. We think it’s something a community comes around to make those investments work, and South Carolina is very committed to nuclear generation.’ – Lynn Good

‘Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.’ – Lynn Good

‘JFK inherited three recessions from the Dwight D. Eisenhower years. And he wound up slashing tax rates across the board, for upper, middle and lower incomes as well as corporate investment. That’s Kennedy the Democrat.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘When businesses don’t spend and invest, they don’t hire and cannot offer better-paying jobs. Business investment and wages are two sides of the same mirror. If a company purchases five trucks rather than 10, there are five fewer trucking jobs.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘Kennedy had already, in 1962, lowered investment taxes on business. And after his tragic assassination, his broader tax proposals were passed into law in early 1964. And they worked. The U.S. economy grew by roughly 5 percent yearly for nearly eight years.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘Trump’s corporate tax reform would restore America’s position as the most hospitable investment climate in the world. For a change, businesses and their cash would come back home.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘The economy has barely recovered from the so-called ‘Great Recession’, with a 2 percent annual rate of growth since mid-2009. Peak worker wages, business investment, and productivity all occurred around the year 2000.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘Though narrative cohesion isn’t the strength of ‘Mean Girls,’ which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined ‘Ridgemont High’ and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘In Utah, one word sums up our business prowess: investment. Simply put, we know we can’t have long-term economic growth and maintain Utah’s enviable quality of life without making some critical investments.’ – Gary Herbert

‘As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.’ – Gary Herbert

‘Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It’s just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.’ – Safra A. Catz

‘Seed stage is an investment area that is really important for early stage startups. It feels like there is a need for trusted, experienced people to work with and to guide startups at this level.’ – Aileen Lee

‘When I first started doing influencer marketing for my company Due, I lost my shorts with literally no return on my investment.’ – John Rampton

‘The disciplined approach to pursuing and selecting the most attractive investment opportunities continues to distinguish ExxonMobil. We are long-term driven, and we’re patient. And we’re not opportunity-constrained.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business investment remains soft, and subdued foreign demand and the appreciation of the dollar since mid-2014 continue to restrain exports.’ – Janet Yellen

‘It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated.’ – Michael Burry

‘Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, ‘Scion Capital’, that the mortgage market would melt down in the second half of 2007, causing substantial damage to the economy.’ – Michael Burry

‘Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.’ – Michael Burry

‘China’s government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they’re too weak on domestic consumption.’ – Jack Ma

‘Laureate is a highly leveraged failing investment whose principal beneficiaries are Wall Street fat cats and billionaires – and William Jefferson Clinton.’ – Roger Stone

‘Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘I’ve never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes his investment decisions.’ – Steve Easterbrook

‘Separating out banks and investment banks right now under Glass-Steagall would have very big implications to the liquidity and the capital markets and banks being able to perform necessary lending.’ – Steve Mnuchin

‘From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about… how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.’ – Ron Johnson

‘Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.’ – Max Baucus

‘Trade and investment have come to be the foundation, the ballast, of the U.S.-China relationship, providing great stability.’ – Max Baucus

‘I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it’s a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up – Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.’ – Jennifer Coolidge

‘The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.’ – Charles T. Canady

‘Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.’ – Eden Hazard

‘We spend to pretend that we’re upper class. And when the dust clears – when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity – there’s nothing left over. Nothing for the kids’ college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.’ – J. D. Vance

‘When we do an investment, we always ask, ‘Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?’ That’s a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that’s how you’re taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.’ – Dan Gilbert

‘Detroit’s a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you’ve got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you’re going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.’ – Dan Gilbert

‘The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.’ – John T. Chambers

‘Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.’ – John T. Chambers

‘In September 2014, the USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to be invested over a 2-3 year period.’ – John T. Chambers

‘You don’t tell a player you can’t monitor your investments for a month. There’s no way you’re going to have a billion-dollar investment and never fail to monitor it for a period of time.’ – Jim Irsay

‘Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘I’ve made a payroll. I know what it’s like to execute a business plan. I know what it’s like to expect the proper return on investment… and I know you can’t spend your way out of debt.’ – Linda McMahon

‘If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it’s a warrant on economy.’ – Wilbur Ross

‘My guiding principle and motivation was that I wanted to retire by the time I turned 35. There actually are two books that I bought and still have – Paul Terhost’s ‘Cashing In On the American Dream: How to Retire at 35’ and Andrew Tobias’s ‘The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need’ – that were my personal financial road map.’ – Mark Cuban

‘Housing traditionally is not viewed as a great investment. It takes maintenance; it depreciates. It goes out of style. All of those are problems. And there’s technical progress in housing. So, new ones are better. So, why was it considered an investment? That was a fad.’ – Robert J. Shiller

‘Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society – like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.’ – Adam Cohen

‘The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.’ – Ravi Subramanian

‘The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. ‘Free trade’ is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.’ – Paul Craig Roberts

‘As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them.’ – Shehbaz Sharif

‘I think with most things online, if you treat your audience like friends instead of like Impressions and Clickthrough Percentages and Returns On Investment, then you’re off to a great start.’ – Ryan North

‘Incremental increases in the minimum wage won’t address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.’ – Bruce Rauner

‘No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It’s such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.’ – Karin Slaughter

‘Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I’m usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.’ – Jim Cantrell

‘I’m hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that’s only going to happen in the commercial sector – if there are large profits to be made.’ – Alan Stern

‘I haven’t done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We’ve never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.’ – David Furnish

‘The 500X and Jeep Renegade are very different cars, but they are manufactured in the same plant and share R&D, which reduces the total investment required by 1 billion euros. That is why I’m convinced that the industry needs and will see more consolidation in the future.’ – John Elkann

‘I think people are getting into these ‘Empire’ songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.’ – Ne-Yo

‘In 1900, 45 steamship lines served Galveston. Twenty-six foreign governments had consulates there. The storm damaged its reputation as a safe place for substantial investment by railroads then seeking to dominate various trans-continental routes.’ – Erik Larson

‘I’m a very commonsense guy – I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.’ – Troy Carter

‘On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars.’ – Troy Carter

‘The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it’s compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.’ – Dave McClure

‘We don’t understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘We are monitoring the global companies on a daily basis, and their rating continues to be investment grade. We will take immediate action if anything goes wrong.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘We have to address impediments that stall implementation of projects and streamline the process to ensure smooth execution going forward. We need to address the leverage levels among corporates to restart investment cycle.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘I founded SkyBridge – an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street’s next generation of Wall Street’s entrepreneurs – in 2005.’ – Anthony Scaramucci

‘The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space.’ – Piyush Goyal

‘It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis – a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day – or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn’t a very difficult decision.’ – Dara Khosrowshahi

‘I feel like I grew up in the investment business. My dad was at T. Rowe Price his whole career. We lived in Baltimore and had a small social circle, so most of my dad’s friends also worked for T. Rowe.’ – Adena Friedman

‘In order to ensure long-term investment, it is important to make infrastructure as transparent and as bankable as possible – should be a win-win for all.’ – Arundhati Bhattacharya

‘There is potential for more Chinese investment in India’s infrastructure, and there are already Chinese investors in India’s power and telecoms sector as well as the banking and payments space.’ – Arundhati Bhattacharya

‘In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.’ – Arundhati Bhattacharya

‘We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.’ – Abigail Johnson

‘Some directors do recut their films, but I don’t if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign, less investment in the film at the other end, which is… fine. I get it.’ – Todd Haynes

‘A new product, technology, or innovation – such as Bitcoin – has the potential to give rise both to frauds and high-risk investment opportunities. Potential investors can be easily enticed with the promise of high returns in a new investment space and also may be less skeptical when assessing something novel, new, and cutting-edge.’ – Perianne Boring

‘There is no such thing as guaranteed high investment returns. Be wary of anyone who promises that you will receive a high rate of return on your investment with little or no risk.’ – Perianne Boring

‘I was a senior leader within the Movement for Democratic Change. I had a farm that was under the Zimbabwean Investment Center, which gave it special protection, because I had an external partner through the export processing zone.’ – Roy Bennett

‘Economically Targeted Investing, or ETI, refers to the practice of selecting investments, in part, for their collateral benefits in addition to the investment return for the retirement plan.’ – Tom Perez

‘I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!’ – Adam Draper

‘I’m excited about the emergence of tokens, and while I’m skeptical of many of the early projects being launched, I do believe we are seeing the emergence of an entirely new asset class that will foster the growth of a new investment community, a new set of social networks, and most importantly, a new class of technologies.’ – Meltem Demirors

‘Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it’s a taxable event. It’s like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.’ – Olaf Carlson-Wee

‘If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you’re doing.’ – Olaf Carlson-Wee

‘Our students are the best investment we can make for our country and our future economic prosperity. It’s in our best interest to ensure they’re receiving the best education possible and maximizing their potential.’ – Jared Polis

‘Some infrastructure projects clearly require massive, coordinated investment – interstate highways or a new trans-Hudson tunnel, for instance. Others don’t have to. We should be unafraid of pilot projects and learning.’ – Cathy Engelbert

‘Giving all of Denver’s kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community’s kids and future.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in’s easy.’ – Nigel Farage

‘If Warren Buffett could change his mind about investing in airlines, Mohnish Pabrai could change his mind about investing in autos. Pabrai, who has modeled his investment career and fee structure after Buffett’s original partnership, counts General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Ferrari in his highly concentrated portfolio.’ – Kelly Evans

‘The billionaire founder of investment firm Elliott Management was one of several investors who warned financial ministers in 2007 that a crack in the housing market could cause huge problems for the banking industry.’ – Kelly Evans

‘Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects – refineries, power plants – begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn’t state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.’ – Franklin Foer

‘ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.’ – Adam Lashinsky

‘I don’t buy fancy things. I donated $2 million to Wu-Tang. I got a mixtape in return. It was a wonderful investment.’ – Martin Shkreli

‘Western design houses have been exploring China in terms of investment for well over a decade.’ – Anna Wintour

‘As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.’ – Kevin Brady

‘The ‘Bourne’ franchise means the world to me. I love that Universal wants to put one out every two years. Because it is a safe investment, I benefit from that on many levels.’ – Doug Liman

‘A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you’re staking something more precious – your time. And unlike VCs, you can’t spread your risk by betting on a bunch of companies at once. Start with TAM. That’s ‘total addressable market,’ and if it’s not big enough, there’s no point in talking.’ – Daniel Lyons

‘In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that’s far more important to us, which is time – minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you’re talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.’ – Christopher Voss

‘I like to think that people are buying Emilia Wickstead because they want to keep it in their wardrobe as an investment piece; she’s not just buying it because it’s of the moment or what’s currently in season.’ – Emilia Wickstead

‘I think that we cater for the woman that wants to be fashion-forward but also wants to purchase an investment piece that she’ll have in her wardrobe forever.’ – Emilia Wickstead

‘We think the most important criteria for selecting an investment firm are the manager, team, and track record.’ – John Paulson

‘We believe the size is almost irrelevant to investment success. Our size has certainly not diminished our enthusiasm for investing in our funds, our ability to find or create opportunities, or our performance outlook.’ – John Paulson

‘We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.’ – John Paulson

‘I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you’re the owner-occupier of.’ – John Paulson

‘One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn’t because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn’t believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.’ – Gavin Creel

‘Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings and investment.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only does it create jobs once: the investment creates jobs multiple times.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘There’s a long list of investments that governments could and should be making. There is strengthening infrastructure, such as transport and communications; there is investment in education; there is investment in families, particularly putting measures in place that free women from having to make the choice between raising a family and work.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘For me, a Thom Browne suit is an investment.’ – Nick Wooster

‘The materialisation of reforms in the form of rollout of the GST, the institution of Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and the abolition of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board should boost investor and investment confidence.’ – Urjit Patel

‘We have seen the most difficult times and were there to back each other. We have struggled, seen career highs and lows, and know we will be there for each other forever. We have together build our relationship strong. Himanshu is my biggest investment, and I can’t let him go.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘One of the rules I’ve learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘There’s usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many times that amount of money in a matter of years.’ – Emily Chang

‘The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.’ – David Autor

‘One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.’ – David Autor

‘It was very much exaggerated, this information campaign, this sustained campaign against us. But if I may… Over the process of years, it will thaw out. I mean, just gradually through contact, through dialogue, through investment.’ – Muammar al-Gaddafi

‘I happen to think that global slowdown, the slowdown in investment, strengthening dollar probably provide more of a headwind than we get from the decline in oil prices.’ – Henry Paulson

‘Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.’ – Henry Paulson

‘For decades, allies have counted on the U.S. to step up to the plate to work with them to protect the shared values we hold dear. As we face numerous international challenges, both old and new, we need to put more faith and investment in our international and diplomatic institutions, not weaken them.’ – Mike Quigley

‘JP Morgan Chase’s investment in our firm is a logical outgrowth of our longstanding relationship.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times.’ – Frans van Houten

‘If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.’ – Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

‘Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country’s future.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The question for every Olympics is whether the giant investment will pay off in the future.’ – Richard Edelman

‘Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you’ll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.’ – Dennis Muilenburg

‘This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.’ – Dennis Muilenburg

‘The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.’ – Dennis Muilenburg

‘When capital comes into our own countries, it ought to be for, you know, a longer-term investment. If it’s extremely short, hot money, we ought to treat it in that way and have type of regulatory policy.’ – Charles L. Evans

”Too big to fail’ is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny’s fails, it’s fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that’s not the same for large-scale investment companies.’ – Bill Foster

‘Programs like I-Corps get university and other federally-funded research translated more quickly into new products and new companies, creating American jobs and providing taxpayers a better return on their investment in science.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘Working together, we can meet our shared goal to combat climate change. From harmonizing vehicle emissions standards to using our trading relationship to boost investment in clean energy, the actions the United States and Canada take together will help both nations meet international goals.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘In many parts of our country, geography and population density can make it difficult to attract private investment. These communities depend on federal investments to maintain and upgrade their transportation systems and stay competitive. And we know that it’s an investment worth making. Because when rural America succeeds, we all do.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation’s infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.’ – Dick Durbin

‘Dealers claim that women artists are not as salable as men, that they are a poor investment. We know that there are few women art collectors, a fact which may have an impact on the market.’ – Agnes Gund

‘It is no coincidence that in the wake of the Arab Spring, investment in youth-related initiatives, especially related to employment, has increased sharply.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘Trade and investment are good for innovation – open economies allow new ideas and technologies to diffuse more quickly from wherever they are created.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘Trade and investment promotion organizations are crucial partners in ITC’s work to enable SMEs to internationalize. They sustain and multiply the impact of trade-related technical support and allow SMEs to function with confidence in any location.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he’s a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous – deliciously so.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge – meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘African countries lose billions every year because of tax dodging by big corporations and wealthy individuals. They lose billions more from overly generous tax incentives in a misguided belief that this is the only way to attract foreign investment.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition, there must be investment in care – child care, aged care, disability care, health, and education – which are essential social support structures to enable women to work.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don’t earn.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘The more time a girl spends in the classroom, the higher the return on investment for her time, and the beneficiaries are stronger families and communities.’ – Tae Yoo

‘Educating girls and women and equipping them with ICT skills offers a clear return on investment for society: stronger families, stronger communities, stronger economies.’ – Tae Yoo

‘GAVI works collaboratively with the private sector – from investment banks to vaccine suppliers to corporations to members of the Forbes 400 – to find new and better ways to raise and apply resources and broaden the base of participants in global health.’ – Seth Berkley

‘As a global carrier, we always have a positive view on investment in infrastructure that supports our industry.’ – Soren Skou

‘R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it’s a composite of private and public investment in R&D.’ – Jean-Philippe Courtois

‘Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.’ – Fatih Birol

‘India needs three things for its energy sector: investment, investment, and investment.’ – Fatih Birol

‘We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa

‘We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa

‘Simply to have peace brings huge investment.’ – Juan Manuel Santos

‘My ideal – and here, the sky is the limit – is to attract foreign investment via concessions.’ – Juan Manuel Santos

‘Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.’ – Sergio Ermotti

‘Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don’t pay for the cost of capital.’ – Sergio Ermotti

‘We have a very competitive and profitable investment bank and strong asset management capabilities. We want to continue to build on all those businesses organically.’ – Sergio Ermotti

‘Whenever global economy is reasonably doing well, the investment flows.’ – Tulsi Tanti

‘The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘I’d say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn’t try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘Just because a company’s future is highly uncertain doesn’t mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don’t want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don’t want to increase taxes on work. You don’t want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘Ensuring investment in health systems will not only help us manage HIV/AIDS, it will also support our efforts to prevent and treat other communicable and noncommunicable diseases as well as prevent and respond to future health emergencies.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘People, including business leaders, are willing to be open-minded about investment dollars when they know where they are going – and what purpose they are going to be dedicated – as opposed to just going into the black abyss of the general fund.’ – Katie McGinty

‘The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.’ – Katie McGinty

‘In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.’ – Borje Ekholm

‘Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it’s amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.’ – Christopher Priest

‘I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they’re smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories – its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.’ – Andrew Yang

‘It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.’ – Jim Gray

‘I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.’ – Li Lu

‘We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains – we think it is important to encourage investment.’ – Gary Cohn

‘Investment in America does not just benefit the United States – it benefits the world.’ – Gary Cohn

‘I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.’ – Sallie Krawcheck

‘We just haven’t had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall – fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.’ – Sallie Krawcheck

‘Is the investment community critical to our economic success? Yes. Free markets, innovation, access to credit, venture capital, and strong labor rights – these have been the underpinnings of our economic vitality, from laying railways to broadband lines.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.’ – Steve Ells

‘Before starting my own investment funds, the only models I was aware of were those of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Their models made a lot of sense to me, so I cloned them.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘Talking to people is beneficial if you can identify the right people to share ideas and discuss decisions because everyone has blind spots, and others can sometimes catch yours. I think an investment team is a bad idea, but it is a good idea to talk to trustworthy individuals who do not have biases or interests.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘One might think of investment managers as astronomers and CEOs as astronauts. The two roles are radically different with distinct personality traits. Like astronomers, investment managers tend to be introverted, skeptical, and very analytical. CEOs, like astronauts, are the exact opposite, typically being extroverts, optimists, and, well, leaders.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘The essence of a good investment manager is one who studies a given business and extrapolates the future cash flows that the business is likely to generate over the next several years. Based on the cash flow and asset assessment, they can then arrive at their expected rate of return if they bought a fraction of that business at a given price.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.’ – Brian Schatz

‘I think it’s an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!’ – Nell Scovell

‘If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.’ – Patrick Pichette

‘When we look at the investment decisions into the city of Compton, the small business community and global corporations and retailers and all of those types of services that decide to come into the community to serve it, they look at the perception, how does the brand work with the local community.’ – Aja Brown

‘Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn’t feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.’ – Andy Dunn

‘Whenever we feel shame, it’s a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.’ – Leslie Jamison

‘The best investment you can make is your skin. It’s really the first thing people see.’ – Candace Cameron Bure

”The Big Short’ is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the investment banks.’ – John Lanchester

‘I’ve met with titans of Silicon Valley because they’re investing in our national expansion. I’ve had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever.’ – Charles Best

‘This career is a relentless hustle because Hollywood is crowded with too many smart, talented people pursuing the same dream and the same pool of entertainment investment dollars. And unlike in law or medicine, there are no college degrees required – no barriers to entry.’ – Jay Chandrasekhar

‘Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘We’re not getting a good return on investment on all that money we’re pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there’s an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.’ – William Binney

‘The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen.’ – David Hepworth

‘When I make a decision to run, I will make an investment, just like any business I’ve made investments in before.’ – Robert Blaha

‘Most collectors I know don’t think of art as a business or as an investment.’ – Norman Braman

‘You’re a smart person. You’re going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that’s going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.’ – Caroline Ghosn

‘All of us salute the ITU’s excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.’ – Ory Okolloh

‘The ideal time period to get an investment is when you’ve already proved your concept and know what you’re doing, and it’s about adding water to the seeds.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value – and affordability – of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.’ – Kenneth Frazier

‘For me, all collecting must be done out of the love of the art. That being said, investment knowledge is absolutely mandatory so that you are really buying what you think you are buying.’ – Tim Matheson

‘There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.’ – James Packer

‘Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.’ – Zanny Minton Beddoes

‘We have to start imagining a new reality – this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities.’ – Opal Tometi

‘Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.’ – Ajit Pai

‘There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year – especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don’t work that way.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment – which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘Invest your money safely. Avoid the risky lure of spectacular returns; go for an investment that cannot lose its value. This is why I have put all my spare cash into buying not shares, but thousands of penny chews.’ – Dominic Holland

‘In all our businesses, we are out to build local capability in four basic aspects – product line, manufacturing and supply chain, the service team, and the financing and investment capability.’ – John L. Flannery

‘Artificial intelligence, machine learning… cell therapy, immunotherapy. There’s just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion.’ – John L. Flannery

‘Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.’ – Kofi Annan

‘When I was young and foolish, and I had no money, I bought myself the carcass of a Jaguar E-Type. It was a rust bucket. I spent all my university savings trying to fix the car. I never did, and I finally sold it to recover at least part of my investment.’ – Sergio Marchionne

‘Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.’ – Oren Etzioni

‘Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of scientific thought and the tools for searching through it.’ – Oren Etzioni

‘The purpose of the capital formation presentations and roundtable discussions is to create a dialogue with business leaders, economic development organizations, business incubators, and community leaders to promote investment in Montana and support businesses as they start up and/or grow their existing operations.’ – Matt Rosendale

‘Our country… invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what’s so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about being an investment banker. I just didn’t know what I wanted to do with myself. I think the thing that best suits me about being a C.E.O. is that you get to exercise many different talents and wear many different hats.’ – Glenn Kelman

‘I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they’re educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.’ – Jeanne Shaheen

‘I worked in investment banking for two years. I was in a program where they kind of just owned you. And you – I didn’t realize that I’ve signed up for that, which was one of the problems. I didn’t know anybody who’d done this.’ – David Einhorn

‘I don’t think you should follow trends for your home; things for your home are less about fashion and more about investment. So, find things you truly love and make you happy when you see them.’ – Bobby Berk

‘West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.’ – Hilary Beckles

‘Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.’ – Rose Namajunas

‘A vital part of Trump’s appeal was his promise to make America emphatically great again, staunching the haemorrhage of jobs and investment to China and Mexico, and cutting back on handouts to NATO and illegal migrants.’ – Linda Colley

‘Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well as people, have flowed back and forth across the border, and the U.S. is, by far, our biggest trading partner.’ – Margaret MacMillan

‘Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.’ – Mike DeWine

‘We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.’ – Susan Collins

‘We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as ‘bad’ and not worth our attention or investment.’ – Ayanna Pressley

‘On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment.’ – Michael Spence

‘In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.’ – Michael Spence

‘Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private-sector investment by increasing returns.’ – Michael Spence

‘If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education is an essential investment.’ – Julia Gillard

‘A literate, skilled workforce is essential for low-income countries to attract investment and fill jobs with local rather than imported labour.’ – Julia Gillard

‘One thing ‘Game of Thrones’ has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.’ – Julia Gillard

‘The one thing I always say to myself is I want to make sure that when a team invests in me that they get their investment’s worth.’ – Kurt Warner

‘In the 1990s, we had seven great teams – Milan, Inter, Juventus, Parma, Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina. If you look at the players, they were great players, but there was some crazy investment, and some teams went bankrupt, like Parma and Lazio.’ – Paolo Maldini

‘I will be the personal bodyguard for every investment in my city. If Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary can transform, then so can Ukraine.’ – Vitali Klitschko

‘I try not to get typecast in any role, any image. I feel I can do justice to every kind of role, so why not make the best of it? See, commercial films alone can get you only so far. If you want to last as an actress, then you have to put in that extra bit of investment by doing off-beat films, too.’ – Tabu

‘I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially – and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out – there was a dislocation that occurred in some of the more traditional mechanisms.’ – Scott Morrison

‘Most citizens are consumers, not investors. They don’t recognize the benefits to consumers that come from investment.’ – Edward Conard

‘When all is said and done, you’re either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you’re against it. The real world offers no middle ground.’ – Edward Conard

‘Human Needs Project is really about how to come up with a different approach to helping, really focusing on the dignity of people living in communities you are not a part of, and how to approach these communities with help, but more look at it as an investment and a collaboration with these communities rather than, ‘Here comes the white savior!” – Connie Nielsen

‘When lots of stores compete, the result is a combination of better prices for you, better deals for developers, and more investment in new content and innovation.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘Streaming is something that’s going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘The effect of the foreign direct investment of Etihad in Jet Airways and the implied bilateral agreement of air services between India and the UAE has primarily damaged Air India, which is a government-owned airline with huge assets that are extremely valuable.’ – Subramanian Swamy

‘The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian ‘invention’ of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative.’ – Subramanian Swamy

‘I will say it loud and clear: at Manchester City, it is all about what you choose to look at. If you look at the money spent on players, you will only ever see that side of City. If you look at the bigger plan, which is investment in the community, facilities, and youth teams, you realise there is heart and soul in this club.’ – Vincent Kompany

‘When the telecoms system in the U.K. was made to compete and to seek private capital, many worried that the service would get worse and there would be a further shortage of investment. They were wrong on both counts. Technology was transformed, and investment soared. Prices went down; choice and usage went up.’ – John Redwood

‘Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘Bharat Nirman was a development programme aimed at stepping up public investment and public-private partnerships in the construction of rural roads, drinking water supply, rural telecommunication, rural housing, and minor irrigation.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘During the 1990s, when India opened up to foreign investment, Japan was so mesmerised by the China opportunity that it chose to yield market space across a wide swathe of industries to South Korean competitors.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘In India, we always look at feature films as a progression over short films. But, abroad, people make a living making short films. The revenue might not be as much as in feature films, but the return on investment is good.’ – Karthik Subbaraj

‘I look at eating well as an investment. But burgers are my weakness.’ – Luke Goss

‘There are some templates that are in place for bipartisan investment in ways to make our economy stronger and ways to lift the middle class and help the vulnerable.’ – Bob Casey, Jr.

‘I was the executer of our mother’s trust. She asked me to hold onto the house for 10 years and then sell it. I think that was because it was so hard to face dying and think of all her most prized possessions no longer being a part of our lives as well. Business wise, it was a terrible investment, because we were losing money.’ – Kyle Richards

‘We take dispassionate view of our investments. Does it mean that we are looking out to monetise the investment? That is not correct. But if we get an offer that we cannot refuse, as I say, then it is not that we are not, that we will still hold on to the investment.’ – Ajay Piramal

‘Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can do that.’ – Ajay Piramal

‘Investment in Shriram will actually enable us to enter some of the retail segments such as vehicle financing, consumer and gold loans, and other products such as insurance, mutual funds, among others, where we wanted to have a footprint.’ – Ajay Piramal

‘The reality is, the way that online experiences have progressed, it’s an expensive proposition. The amount of servers we need to support ‘Smash Brothers’ or ‘Mario Kart’ – these big multiplayer games – is not a small investment.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘Without public investment, without families spending, without cheap credit, the economy won’t recover.’ – Fernando Haddad

‘If people are anything but enthusiastic about the information or ideas that they’re sharing, they’re either not that invested in what they’re doing – or they’re not communicating that investment effectively.’ – Ana Kasparian

‘While I’m sure some millennials are concerned with the ethical issues involved in mining for diamonds, the main reason they steer clear of the gems is because, well, they’re a dumb investment.’ – Ana Kasparian

‘We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched a very important constitutional reform on judicial certainty that completely restarted the whole of the courts system in Ukraine.’ – Petro Poroshenko

‘As a state representative, I have consistently supported our state’s investment in Israel and our vocal support of Israel’s right to exist.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘If you can’t trust your boss – or your pension company – to take care of your investment, who can you trust? The vast majority of company chiefs take their responsibilities seriously and protect their workers’ final salary pensions. But for too long, the reckless few playing fast and loose with people’s futures have got away scot-free.’ – Amber Rudd

‘Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don’t play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don’t respond to the actions of active managers.’ – Eugene Fama

‘Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.’ – Rick Harrison

‘In banking, it was my responsibility to deliver investment opportunities and solutions to hedge fund clients, and at Bloomberg, it’s my job to break down news that matters to our viewers and readers.’ – Stephanie Ruhle

‘Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘Second homes are an investment.’ – John Layfield

‘In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I’d gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, ‘We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?” – John Layfield

‘I went to work on Wall Street for about three or four years with an investment bank, got certified: series 3, series 7, and all this stuff.’ – John Layfield

‘I’ve got a really long record around progressive politics, especially when it comes to the economy. Voted against the Bush tax cuts. Voted against the Trump tax cuts. Believe in investment into lifting people up, closing the opportunity gaps that exist in our society.’ – Tim Ryan

‘We believe a large-scale, next-generation venue will not only become a premier destination, but also drive growth in London’s overall music and entertainment market, benefiting artists and fans, and serving as a long-term investment in the future of this incredible city.’ – James L. Dolan

‘It’s going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor’s office – getting rid of the ‘us versus them,’ the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you’re a campaign donor.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘An investment in our kids is an investment in our future. It strengthens our economy through workforce development, attracts new jobs, and builds new industries in our state.’ – Tony Evers

‘When you get world-class investment, you get world-class results.’ – Ada Hegerberg

‘It’s great that we all talk about investment, but there needs to be action behind it as well. If we don’t push for the change for women’s football to go in the right direction, then it won’t come by itself.’ – Ada Hegerberg

‘India is committed to working with SCO to strengthen our economic and investment ties.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘Of course I have other passions… but my real investment obviously without a second thought is LVMH and what my father created.’ – Antoine Arnault

‘Portfolio investment, often called ‘hot money’ because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy’s vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.’ – Gita Gopinath

‘Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.’s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.’ – Dominic Grieve

‘Britain’s generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world’s most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.’ – Priti Patel

‘The case for open markets, free trade, private investment and technology has never been stronger in development. Over the decades, this combination has driven down poverty, helped to tackle disease, and created jobs across the globe.’ – Priti Patel

‘We’ve got to create strategies of our own that ensure that our kids are going to get an education they need, that people are getting connected to skills and that we do more to draw investment into the city of Flint.’ – Gretchen Whitmer

‘The best investment would be a Monika Chiang handbag. Her stuff is so on point. Her pieces are really classic, sophisticated, expensive-looking and they’re just chic.’ – Jeannie Mai

‘Australia, most of the filmmakers there write a film and they direct it. There’s a lot of writer/directors there, because nobody wants to write a script and then let it go when they’ve had that much of a personal investment to it, because you’re not getting paid huge amounts of money in Australia to direct.’ – Leigh Whannell

‘Instead of fostering investment and innovation through deregulation, the FCC will be devoting its resources to adopting new rules without any evidence that consumers are unable to access the content of their choice.’ – Michael O’Rielly

‘With an investment in our state’s energy infrastructure to capture methane, we will create jobs, increase revenue for our schools, and protect the health of workers and communities, all while reducing harmful emissions that are contributing to climate change.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘If you’re looking for investment you’ve got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they’re getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.’ – Deborah Meaden

‘I’m not scared of many sectors, so if you look at my investment portfolio, it is pretty wide. I’ve invested in anything from market research firms to fashion houses and textile companies.’ – Deborah Meaden

‘Loving something doesn’t make it a good investment.’ – Deborah Meaden

‘It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.’ – Deborah Meaden

‘The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that provide an excess return above investment are discounted.’ – John W. Henry

‘The fact is, LFC is going to require substantial investment, as did the Red Sox.’ – John W. Henry

‘Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘I just thought I could broaden my impact and my reach by starting a non-profit and putting investment into our community.’ – Vic Mensa

‘What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in – as I say often because I was that guy growing up – the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.’ – Phil Murphy

‘Consuming art should involve investment and risk.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.’ – Brock Pierce

‘In an age of globalisation, investment and good jobs increasingly flow to cities and regions with distinctive strengths and specialisms. These cannot be built up from Whitehall. They require local expertise, knowledge and dedication.’ – Chuka Umunna

‘Some will say it isn’t the government’s job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot it can and should do. It should offer communities much more support to manage demographic and cultural change, including investment in public services and additional housing stock in our migration hotspots.’ – Chuka Umunna

‘There’s no shortage of investment into Manchester United.’ – Mike Phelan

‘A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.’s needs.’ – John McDonnell

‘We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.’ – John McDonnell

‘Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.’ – John McDonnell

‘My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.’ – Marc Randolph

‘After all, chamber of commerce type conservatives love nothing more than to opine on the great virtues of Texas. The low taxes, the low regulation, delightfully paired with a low investment in education, health care and really anything else that might be of use to their working-class citizens.’ – Krystal Ball

‘The investment climate in Gujarat under Modi has been very supportive of business interests; but it was the same under the Congress governments that came before him.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

‘We’ve been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.’ – Ro Khanna

‘I know it may come off cheesy, but if somebody’s going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more into you, you want to make sure you can return that; you want to make sure they feel good about their investment.’ – Ari Lennox

‘Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.’ – David Gauke

‘I want to open up investment even further so over the summer we’ll launch a consultation on indirect investments in social enterprises – including exploring the possibility of a new scheme based on the success of venture capital trusts which will enable investors to pool their funds to support a variety of social enterprises.’ – David Gauke

‘I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.’ – Kevin Clifton

‘There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future consultants and investment bankers. At least the Trotskyists cared about the important stuff.’ – Ross Douthat

‘I have never had a situation where an investee company would have a good value by having a banker. Investment bankers are there to please future clients. You are a temporary client; they are therefore not to get you the best valuation.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘Most of us don’t look at investment in a win-win situation. You have to give in a little bit; you have to take a little bit. Most feel everything has to be rinsed out for closing of the transaction.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature, you ensure that it commands the investment and protection that other forms of capital attract.’ – George Monbiot

‘Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank.’ – Joe Sestak

‘We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.’ – Nawaz Sharif

‘The biggest threat to our economy comes from the loony left economic policies of the Democrats, which would scare off investment and bring back stagnation.’ – Steve Hilton

‘As I have consistently argued, leaving the E.U. needs to be accompanied by a strong set of pro-enterprise policies to counteract any disruption: cut corporate taxes to make the U.K. an attractive destination for business and investment.’ – Steve Hilton

‘Some collectors do but no, I don’t look at watches as an investment.’ – J. J. Redick

‘The challenge is, in terms of a canon like ‘X-Men,’ it’s more like ‘Harry Potter’ and Hogwarts, or ‘Game of Thrones.’ It needs time and space to evolve and to bring the reader or viewer in and give them a result that’s worth the investment of that time.’ – Chris Claremont

‘I will buy Victorian tea dresses and the like, but I don’t really think about them as investment pieces – just beautiful and vintage things.’ – Camille Rowe

‘India is keen to leverage Italian technology and investment for growth and development.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘A non-invasive test that is sensitive and specific for the early detection of breast cancer is a goal worthy of our investment and dedication.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘We are committed to levelling up across every region and nation in the U.K. and that is why we are making the largest ever public investment into broadband. This investment delivers on our promises to the British people, boosting growth and prosperity across the country.’ – Rishi Sunak

‘I have an understanding of how much is at stake in football, how much money is at stake, how much investment there is and what it means to the fans. It’s an emotional game. It’s a focal point for communities. It’s escapism for fans. Sport is a wonderful thing but it is just that: sport. It is my job.’ – Nigel Pearson

‘The more blessings or resources you have at your disposal, the more I become aware of… how should I steward this? It’s supposed to be an investment that I can turn around and create art that gives something to other people. Ugh, that sounds like the most Miss America answer of all time.’ – Julien Baker

‘As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese – they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.’ – Liz Truss

‘For an investment banker, the choice between a payment that doubles with every square on the chessboard and one that doubles with every other square is more important than any other part of the contract. Who cares whether the payment is in pennies, pounds, or pesos?’ – Paul Romer

‘In macroeconomic theory, there is this argument that what the Fed does has no effect on unemployment, no effect on investment, no effect on the rate of GDP growth.’ – Paul Romer

‘With the Tube, it just needs more investment. Maybe lengthening some of the platforms to get more carriages in, things like that. It just needs more investment put into it.’ – Sol Campbell

‘I always encourage my young clients just starting to create a home, to buy at least one piece of investment furniture, or accessory, or piece of art each year rather than following a trend that will come along, be copied cheaply for the mass market and then be gone.’ – Hilary Farr

‘When it comes to jobs, investment, growth, security and our influence in the world we are clearly stronger in Europe. But we are also making a Labour argument about workers’ rights that really matter, to millions of working people and the trade unions that represent them.’ – Hilary Benn

‘As lieutenant governor, I’ve traveled the world representing Iowa, working to expand our markets, while bringing investment and jobs to our state. I’ve worked on policy that attracts, retains and expands high-tech firms and fosters growth across Iowa.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘I’ve been learning about defunding our investment in police force mentality, and reinvesting in, what do young people need? What do people who get involved in drugs need, what do families need outside of money to take care of their families?’ – Maya Moore

‘After Brexit, we need to design a modern and fair immigration system which attracts talent and investment from the E.U. and the rest of the world.’ – Munira Mirza

‘In times of stress, it is easy to look to one’s weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London’s cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.’ – Munira Mirza

‘The propaganda that Kerala is a trouble-torn state is a matter of concern. Such a false propaganda will adversely impact its investment and development prospects.’ – Pinarayi Vijayan