Investment Quotes - Page 16

• As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.

  Richard Price

  Real, Moving, Class

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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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• The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Should Have, Fifty

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• I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Bankers, Evolution, Particular

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

  Lewis Mumford

  Government, Collaboration, Scientist

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• ...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Conservative, Diversification

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• The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Country, Mean, Innovation

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

  Lawrence Wright

  Real, Faithful, Church

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• 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

  Mean, Political, Groups

  "Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 13, 2009.

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• If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

  Debora Spar

  Way, Drains, Throwing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Opportunity, Vietnam, Benefits

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Opportunity, Balance, Target

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• For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

  Charles Roven

  Home, Long, Video

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• Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

  Mark Cuban

  Cards, Credit, Worst

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• Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could.

  Amy Lockwood

  Strong, Believe, Government

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• The way forward for Africa is investment.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Way Forward, Way

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• We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Government, Community

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• Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

  Carl R Trueman

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

  Richard Branson

  What Matters, Differences, Making A Difference

  Richard Branson (2008). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin Pub

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• Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

  Margo Kaufman

  Money, Talking, Chance

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Bankers, Kind, Longing

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.

  William Hartung

  Art, Leader, President

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• The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Rights, Practice

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• Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Risk, Made

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