Investing Quotes - Page 36

• When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Creating Things, Paper

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• The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that. In the United States of America, people will pay to be first unless we do something to stop them. We don't have defenses built in because we haven't been investing in criticism that would help us mount a defense. I

  Astra Taylor

  Data, America, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

  James Hunter

  Views, Personality, Originality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Information Sharing, People, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the activists, in the United States we would still have child labor, we would still have 16-hour days.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: content.time.com

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• By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

  Ramez Naam

  Teaching, Impact, Roi

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Today, investing is no longer just a good idea for women. It is a must-have.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  Usain Bolt

  Clothing Line, Jamaica, Trying

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Impact, People, Development

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Believe, Hypocrite, Founders

  Source: www.fool.com

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• Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Airports, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

  T.I.

  Community, One Day, Buying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They're moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They're moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined.

  Newt Gingrich

  Moving, Technology, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to take a longer-term perspective. They tend to trade less. They tend to shift in and out of stocks or mutual funds less often.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Men, Track, Perspective

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

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• If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1.5 million, $2 million, $2.5 million. Life changing amounts.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Life Changing, Years, Income

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• It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

  Theresa May

  Challenges, Together, Defense

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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• 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

  Years, Careers, Long

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• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Talking, People, Dollars

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Ignorance, Easier, Traders

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• There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Bulls, Sides, Bears

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• The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Brain, Doe, Beats

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• The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one.
  "Why not?" asked the friend.
  "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
  "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Thinking, Why Not

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