Investment Quotes - Page 36

• If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

  Arthur Scargill

  Alternatives, Matter, Supplies

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• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Intelligent, Technique

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 21, 1949.

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• The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ideas, Giving, Doe

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 41, 1949.

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• 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.

  Paul Gillmor

  Creating, Issues, Community

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• 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

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Education, Two, Kansas

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• 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.

  Ron Chernow

  Wall, Government, Corporations

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• My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

  Randy Castillo

  Imagination, Return, Best Investment

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• Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.

  Anthony Crosland

  Running, Jobs, Democracy

  Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

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• What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fool, Wasting Time, Best Investment

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.28, Random House

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• I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.'

  Bob Ross

  Country, Art, College

  "Bob Ross, Painting Instructor to Millions, Dead at 52". Associated Press, July 07, 1995.

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• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  Randeep Hooda

  Drama, Hero, Character

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• Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Years, Weather

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• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

  Arthur Bloch

  Work, Errors, Reliability

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Capitalist Economy, Usury, Sin

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

  Jim Bouton

  Funny, Business, People

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• This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.

  Sarah Lacy

  Girl, Running, Silly

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• The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

  Frederick W. Smith

  United States, Today, Taxes

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• Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Years, Perception

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Oil

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

  Bernard Arnault

  Regret, Made, My Friends

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• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  Gary Becker

  Men, Effort, Return

  Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.9, Hoover Press

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• U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

  John Bruton

  World, Company

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• Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

  Joan Robinson

  Long, Profit, Expanding

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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• A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

  Stephen Young

  Business, Successful, Winning

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.2, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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