Investors Quotes - Page 23

• Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Thinking, Greed, Bucks

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• The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Success, Mean, Rising

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• Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

  Douglas Leone

  Guy, Dimes, Dozen

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• Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

  James Rickards

  Balance, Bankers, Purpose

  James Rickards (2014). “The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System”, p.14, Penguin

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• Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Twilight, Thinking, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• [When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And, second, the market is worried the central banks have run out of ammunition. So put these two things together, and then investors are repricing the market lower.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Running, Two, Growth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Giving, Doubt

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to find investors who are real. I think most independent filmmakers would echo that sentiment.

  Harrison Smith

  Real, Independent, Thinking

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• We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks and the equity holders in those banks. We could have talked about forcing those investors to take some serious hits on their risky dealings. The idea that taxpayer dollars go in first rather than last - after the equity has been used up - is shocking.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Government, Ideas, Dollars

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• I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.

  Ben Stein

  Loss, Doe, Different

  Source: www.fivecentnickel.com

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• Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Writing, Promise

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• I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Believe, Fighting

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

  Evo Morales

  Country, People, Benefits

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

  Brad Feld

  Trying, Venture, Needs

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

  Paul Krugman

  Funny Things, People, Way

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

  Alfred Kahn

  Sex, Crazy, Airplane

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• One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

  Steve Forbes

  Long, Psychology, Term

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy

  Mark Skousen

  Thinking, Investing, Firsts

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• In a certain way working in animation has become very democratic because now anyone with the right technology can at least prepare a project from home in order to attract investors. Some people can even set up a small home studio and start working.

  Raul Garcia

  Home, Technology, Order

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

  John Templeton

  Majority, Buying, Fortitude

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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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• The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Overcoming, Unemployment

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• Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

  Seth Klarman

  Safety, Perfect, Decision

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• Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors will own the shares of technology companies. Many also shun commercial banks, which they consider to have unanalyzable assets, as well as property and casualty insurance companies, which have both unanalyzable assets and liabilities.

  Seth Klarman

  Technology, Commercial Banks, Share

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