Investment Quotes - Page 15

• We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

  Jim Steranko

  Art, Dedication, Effort

  "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mom, Children, Home

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• I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Effort, Trying

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

  Dan Quayle

  Party, Wells, Company

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Thinking, Space

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

  Garry Trudeau

  Ratios, Wheat, Poor

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Should Have, Ideas

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• It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

  Reid Hoffman

  Track, Able, Belief

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• Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

  John F. Kennedy

  Political, Upkeep, Politics

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Technology, Racism, Hierarchy

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.

  Narendra Modi

  Innovation, India, Constitution

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• Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Writing, Giving

  "The Billboard Q&A: Sheryl Crow". Interview with Ken Tucker, www.billboard.com. January 23, 2008.

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• We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

  Julian Huxley

  Money, Size, Way

  "Philosophic Ants". "The Borzoi Reader", edited by Carl Van Doren, p. 548, 1936.

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• We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing.

  Simon Sinek

  Children, Impact, Return

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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

  Bob Graham

  Needs, Humans, Human Intelligence

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• 5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Curves, Numbers, Promise

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• 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

  Acquisition, Mergers, Downsizing

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• If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Math, Film, Ifs

  "Guest Interview: Geoffrey S. Fletcher: Writer, Director of 'Violet & Daisy'". Interview with Justine Browning, www.indiewire.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Compassion, Effort

  William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.68

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• I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

  Ted Turner

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.

  Melanne Verveer

  Fun, Would Be, Clubs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everything I do in investment is just very different.

  Michael Burry

  Different

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• There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might make that are sort of on assignment for television that turn around in three to six months. Then the margin can be much be better for you because you're not spending three-and-a-half years on it. So I think if you're doing documentary films, that's sort of the way to look at it.

  Liz Garbus

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has been successfully demonstrated and there are full-scale both conventional and unconventional coal projects with CCS that are moving forward. So there is no question that there's continued investment in this technology.

  Gina McCarthy

  Moving, Technology, Data

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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