Quotes on Investment

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

When a designer gives you a bill, what do you see it as? An expense, right? When a designer gives me a bill, I see it as an investment. For me, it is something that appreciates and helps your business grow.

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

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

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

More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous promotion of Shenandoah and Blue Ridge was to stand as the pinnacle of new era finance. It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.

The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

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

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

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

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.