Investment Quotes - Page 24

• To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Safety, Different

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• The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Ordinary, Guarantees

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• Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Business Success, Investing

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• Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

  Walter Schloss

  Philosophy, Trying, Investing

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• All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

  Cherie Blair

  Investing, Research, Shows

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• It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

  Prince Philip

  Moon, Thinking, Pay

  On the U.S. Apollo program at the press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 1968. "The Reality of Monarchy" by Andrew Duncan, 1970.

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• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  Gautam Adani

  Priorities, Focus, India

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• Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

  Warren Buffett

  Rational, Ifs

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• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  J.B. Pritzker

  Wise, Jobs, Long

  "Only Kids Can Fix This Economy" by J. B. Pritzker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.

  Robert P. Murphy

  Pumps, Enough, Economy

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• As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.84

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• I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

  Taylor Swift

  Music, Integrity, Believe

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• We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Girl, Health, Impact

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• When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

  Paul Gillin

  Mean, Risk, Roi

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• While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.

  Dan Pallotta

  Long, Guilt, Dollars

  Dan Pallotta (2010). “Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential”, p.10, UPNE

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• Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

  Lisa Gansky

  Different, Cost, World

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• When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.

  Larry Gagosian

  Artist, Ideas, Faces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

  Erland Josephson

  Cancer, Dark, Doctors

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• The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.

  Laurie Simmons

  Moving, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  School, People, Dollars

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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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