“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.” MeanLongRunningCoursesTermDevelopmentResearchPercentInvestingProfitConsistentlyShort TermHaulResearch And DevelopmentSonyLong Haul Author:Akio Morita
“Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.” HumansLongLife IsTermInterestRightsGenerationsDevelopmentInvestmentInvestingHuman RightsLong TermFuture GenerationSustainable DevelopmentNational Interests Author:Liya Kebede
“... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.” WayMeanRealCountryActionViewsCompanyGroupsEffectsDevelopmentMembersInvestingInternationalOilIncomeNegotiationAugustMonetaryBarrelsAdverseAdoptingOil CompaniesAdverse Effects Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.” ShouldWellsHomeSupportEconomicMilitaryPolicyKeysDevelopmentResourcesInvestingForeign PolicyTechnologicalDiplomaticEconomic Development Author:Ruben Gallego
“I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.” PeopleWorldWayKindTermBreakDevelopmentReturnModelsSolutionsImpactInvestmentPatientInvestingFinancialExperimentsFinanceNew WaysPhilanthropyVentureVenture CapitalCapital Investment Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.” WayValuesEconomyGrowingDevelopmentSmartInvestingInfrastructureStay TrueRebuilding Author:Barack Obama
“Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They're moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They're moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined.” WayMovingTechnologyDevelopmentWeaponsResearchInvestmentIncludingInvestingSpendingDefenseNuclearRussiaSuspectsTanksMissilesDeliveryNew TechnologyRoboticsResearch And DevelopmentTacticalMissile Defense Author:Newt Gingrich
“In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.” ThinkingShouldYearsHumansLooksEnoughSchoolDevelopmentArmyInvestingCorporations Author:Colin Powell
“Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.” PeopleTalkingEconomicDevelopmentNeededProgramDollarsInvestingVariousBillionsEconomic Development Author:Muhammad Yunus