“In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.” PeopleMenWarSelfCoursesMillionsBuildingDevelopmentIndustryCostCapableInvestmentIncludingProductionsSpeedAccomplishedCanadaAlliesUniformsSelf DevelopmentLoanFacilityUnprecedented Author:Tim Buck
“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.” WorldMadeRealChurchCostProveTaxesLaborInvestmentFaithfulMassiveGoodsEstatesPretenseIrsPublic GoodGoods And Services Author:Lawrence Wright
“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.” WorldLongCountryFactsStrongTermMoralTechnologyPolicyCostLowsResearchArgumentOppositesInvestmentDrawingDevelopingLong TermExpensiveReportsFundSustainabilityAgricultureExclusiveImperativesFundingCropsQuestionableUnsafeDeveloping CountriesSustainable Agriculture Author:Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
“Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.” YearsAgeLastsFallOpportunityEnergyEconomicDevelopmentPromiseCostIndiaDollarsRoseCleanInvestmentExpectedBillionsDrivingGenuineCentsLast YearAdoptionNew AgeRenewable EnergyEconomic DevelopmentSustainable Energy Author:Adnan
“The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments” DoneInterestPeriodsCostEntrepreneurInvestmentRateAlternativesOccupationEmploying Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors... the now and forever king-of-the-hill.” WorldShouldForeverTheoryReturnKingsCostMassLowsInvestmentInvestingDrivenCoreHillsInvestorsEquityCapsIndexing Author:Cliff Asness
“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.” WorldDifferentValuesCostInvestmentFinancialAccessOwnershipFundingDurationFinancial ServicesCapital Investment Author:Lisa Gansky
“J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.” ShouldWellsImportantNightSleepAnswersStepsRiskWillingCostFindingsEatingTradeSellsInvestmentRewardsWorriedInvestorsShould IRisk-takingTrade OffsEating Well Author:Burton Malkiel
“The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.” SuccessfulReturnCostInvestmentBangsBucksVaccinesReturn On InvestmentGlobal Health Author:Seth Berkley
“Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment.” GivingLittlesLinesPayCompanyReturnCostBenefitsInvestmentBottomRecognitionUnexpectedIronicImpressiveBottom LinePerksReturn On Investment Author:Chip Conley
“Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!” PeopleKnowsOrderReadingReturnCostInvestmentReturn On Investment Author:James Altucher
“Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.” WorldYearsRealHappensOpportunityGamesModernChangedTheoryReturnCostFindingsEconomicsInvestmentCompareAttractiveReal WorldPortfoliosFreshmanDreamlandOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.” YearsPositionCostLowsYears AgoMajorityInvestmentConvinceFundInvestorsSensibleMentorEquityIndex Funds Author:Warren Buffett
“I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that`s a great investment.” ThinkingWorldShouldBelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWeekCostTaxesIncreasePaidInvestmentMedicalPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in places like Flint, Michigan, where families and children are devastated and destroyed by completely failed infrastructure because of lack of investment.” HumansChildrenWarFeltCostImpactInvestmentDestroyedInfrastructureMichiganDevastatedCost Of War Author:Tulsi Gabbard
“Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans.” MadeEndsNextResultsCompanyTalkingGoneIndustryCostLowsInvestmentWaveProductionsDebtOilLoanDefaultSaudisFracking Author:Michael Hudson
“As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.” IfsWantTryingSaidJobsStuffDealsTalkingKingsCostToughInvestmentHungerLunchLutherIntegratingDimes Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.” PeopleIfsNeedsMayDifferentBigsMightRunningDecisionCompanyMillionsTypeInvolvedCostLowsOrganizationDollarsInvestmentMarketingFinanceAgreementDecision MakingScenariosPharmaceuticalStakeholderPharmaceutical Companies Author:John Kao
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.” CostInvestmentBudgetsHiringLumpsCapital Investment Author:Ann Macbeth
“What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.” WantJobsFormValuesCompanyEconomyCostFlowInvestmentProductivityRisingGoodsWagesStock Price Author:James Surowiecki