119 Quotes on Investment

• Simplicity unveils the hidden complexities within innovation, forcing us to ask if what is easily understood is truly innovative at all.

  Author: Aria Mondiary

• The most worthwhile investment one can make is in their own personal growth.

  Author: Jane Doe

• Time is only wealth when well spent; invest it wisely.

  Author: Rachel Baker

• The biggest risk is not taking any risk. A truly safe bet might actually be the riskiest choice of all.

  Author: Sarah Johnson

• Time is the most valuable currency - spend it wisely or invest it judiciously.

  Author: Alexandra Carter

• Time is a currency that can never be earned back, spend it wisely.

  Author: Samantha Johnson

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

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• 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.

  Author: Alex Winter

• 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.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• 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.

  Author: Jack Welch

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

  Author: Diane Watson

• 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.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• 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.

  Author: Robert Trout

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

  Author: Tommy 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.

  Author: John Thompson

• 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.

  Author: John Thompson

• Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

  Author: Max Sydow

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

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• 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.

  Author: John Snow

• 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.

  Author: John Snow

• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

  Author: John Shadegg

• 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.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• 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.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• 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.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

  Author: James Roosevelt

• Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• 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.

  Author: James Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

  Author: Bob Riley

• Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• 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.

  Author: Feisal Rauf

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  Author: Major Owens

• We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

  Author: Olusegun Obasanjo

• Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

  Author: Arthur Nielsen

• 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.

  Author: Richard Neal

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• 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.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• 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.

  Author: Said Musa

• The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• 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.

  Author: Kevin Mitnick

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  Author: Ed Markey

• 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.

  Author: Orison Marden

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

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• 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.

  Author: John Lewis

• The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

  Author: Richard Leakey

• 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.

  Author: Ferdinand Lassalle

• We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

  Author: John Larson

• 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.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• 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.

  Author: Aaron Klug

• The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

  Author: John Keynes

• 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.

  Author: John Kennedy

• 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.

  Author: Jack Kemp

• In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

  Author: Paul Kagame

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Jones

• 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.

  Author: Angelina Jolie

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• 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.

  Author: Miguel Icaza

• 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.

  Author: Asa Hutchinson

• 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.

  Author: John Hume

• 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.

  Author: Jose Horta

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• 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.

  Author: Dee Hock

• 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.

  Author: Rudolf Hiferding

• 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.

  Author: Brad Henry

• 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.

  Author: Christie Hefner

• 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.

  Author: Keith Haring

• 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.

  Author: Marilyn Hacker

• 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.

  Author: Wilson Greatbatch

• We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

  Author: Bob Graham

• 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.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Susan George

• The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

  Author: Jesse Garrett

• 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.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• 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.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• 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.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• 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.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• 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.

  Author: Donald Evans

• 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.

  Author: Donald Evans

• 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.

  Author: Hugh Downs

• The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

  Author: Jim Cramer

• 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.

  Author: Susan Collins

• 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.

  Author: Ron Chernow

• 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.

  Author: Vinton Cerf

• 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.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

  Author: Randy Castillo

• That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

  Author: Gaston Caperton

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Cambone

• 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.

  Author: Vince Cable

• 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.

  Author: Rocco Buttiglione

• 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.

  Author: Rocco Buttiglione

• I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.

  Author: Michael Burgess

• 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.

  Author: John Bruton

• European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

  Author: John Bruton

• With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

  Author: Gro Brundtland

• 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.

  Author: Gordon Brown

• 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.

  Author: Kit Bond

• Public education is an investment in our future.

  Author: Matt Blunt

• 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.

  Author: Michael Bloomberg

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

  Author: Drew Bledsoe

• Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

  Author: Tim Bishop

• 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.

  Author: Buffalo Bill

• 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.

  Author: Joe Biden

• Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

  Author: Steve Bartlett

• 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.

  Author: Peter Bart

• 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!

  Author: Ted Allen

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