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“A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.”

People Doe Decision Taxes Investment One Time

“Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.”

Greater Investment Gentleman Alabama Ladies And Gentlemen Investment In Education

“A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.”

Science Technology Successful Generations Standards Discovery Investment Population Rising Factories Workplace Infrastructure Science And Technology Surplus New Discoveries Discovery In Science

Author:Robert Trout

“Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.”

Law Poor Investment Investing Rule Of Law

Author:Samantha Power

“So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.”

Purpose Goal Money Business Return Flow Increase Aim Investment Investing Profit Making Money Cash Get Money Simultaneous Cash Flow Return On Investment

Book:The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Source: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

“University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.”

Should Years Stories Decision Party Four College Investment University Debt Selling Four Years Consumption Mortgage Administrators Brokers

Author:Peter Thiel

“Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.”

Ifs Years Looks Values Company Flow Investment Investing Faster Investors Cash Anticipate Decrease Cash Flow

Author:Peter Thiel

“If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.”

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.”

Term Return Investment Investing Investors Observing Short Term Fooled Portfolios Randomness Variability

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous promotion of Shenandoah and Blue Ridge was to stand as the pinnacle of new era finance. It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.”

Ifs May Said Difficult Imagination Millions Security Madness Blue Investment Scales Finance Eras Insanity Heroic September Promotion August Implicit New Era Pinnacle Ridges Simultaneous

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people lose money as individual investors or traders because they're not focusing on losing money. They need to focus on the money that they have at risk and how much capital is at risk in any single investment they have. If everyone spent 90 percent of their time on that, not 90 percent of the time on pie-in-the-sky ideas on how much money they're going to make, then they will be incredibly successful investors.”

People Ifs Want Needs Firsts Ideas Individual Wish Loses Successful Focus Risk Sky Losing Percent Investment Ass Investors Pie Trading Traders Losing Money

Author:Paul Tudor Jones

“Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.”

Should Ideas Particular Investment Meaningless Oblivion Portfolios

Author:Bill Gross

“I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.”

Thinking Has Beens Keys Investment Investing Good Education

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.”

Facts Funny Success Successful Humorous Investment Investing Financial Finance Investors Commentators

Book:Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

Source: Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

“Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.”

“Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.”

Long Wall Periods Presses Investment Hype Active Management

Author:Jim Rogers

“It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.”

People Littles Use Challenges Willing Investment Data

Author:Robert J. Shiller

“The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

World Faces Humanity Powerful Blood Investment Smell Vampire Most Powerful Squids

Book:Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Source: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

“There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.”

Years Investment Bounds Spending Recovery Machinery Capital Investment

Author:Bruce Bartlett

“But Al Jazeera America represents something more than news that isn’t profit or ratings driven — they represent foreign investment in a country where the two-party system outsourced your jobs. They represent facts over opinion and they represent our cultures coming together just a little more, whether you bigots like it or not.”

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Author:John Fugelsang

“A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.”

Ifs Trying Quality Economy Pieces Right Now Investment Careful Be Careful Quantity Wallets Staples

Author:Christian Siriano

“To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.”

People Looks Realizing Results Achieve Easier Harder Investment Investing Superiors

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.”

Return Promise Safety Investment Operations Analysis Principal Adequate Thorough Return On Investment

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.”

Individual Process Emotion Masters Investment Investing Ill Profit

Author:Benjamin Graham

“There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.”

Honor Management Investment Banking Investment Banking Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.”

Thinking Remember Hours Amount Lifetime Investment Climate Ruins Minimum Inflation Minimum Wage Hamburgers

Author:Charlie Munger

“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings”

People Humans Human Beings Money Economics Investment Investing Valuable

Book:Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition

Source: Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition

“It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.”

Investment Rate Vices Saving Vice Versa

Book:Essay on Marxian Economics

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.”

Matter Three Principles Policy Trade Investment Spending Consumers Components Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Evan Davis

“While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...”

Social Building Creating Investment Brands Endeavor Social Business

Author:Brian Solis

“The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.”

Ifs Should Lasts Moving Responsible Dollars Investment Eight Chess Forty Starvation Pawns Capital Investment Forty Eight

Author:William Ewart Napier

“There isn’t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.”

Believe Persons President Events Brother Return Investment Investing Enterprise Free Enterprise

Author:Foster Friess

“An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.”

Values Written Serious Offers Investment Investing Valuable Insight Accomplished Investors Volume Outstanding Publication Invaluable

Author:Leon G. Cooperman

“The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.”

World Secret Security Investment Secret To Success

Book:Anyone can make a million

Source: Anyone can make a million

“What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.”

Knows Trying Sound Term Opinion Laughing Havens Movement Intelligent Investment Clue Short Term Guru Pundits Market Timing

Author:Jonathan Clements

“Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.”

Ifs Lines Worry Missing Train Investment

Author:Gerry Schwartz

“So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.”

Happens Politics Technology Development Majors Investment Affair International Obstacles Supplies Geology International Affairs

Author:Daniel Yergin

“Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.”

Wells Literature Huge Institutions Investment Affection Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Wedding Impress Goodwill Wedding Day Canterbury

Author:Anthony Holden

“As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.”

Firsts Believe Belief Subjects Objects Program Investment Etc Dogma Considering Propositions Approximation

Author:Michel de Certeau

“Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.”

Fighting Poverty Program Investment Handouts

Author:Irwin Redlener

“We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings. It is up to all of us to make smart policy choices that will help combat climate change. For example, putting a price on carbon is a necessary step and could drive resources and investments to a cleaner economy.”

“Everyone wants a conversation. They want inspiration. Inspire people with your website. Don’t just interrupt, but interact. Asking about Return on Investment is the wrong question today. You should be asking about Return on Involvement.”

People Want Should Inspiration Today Inspire Return Conversation Asking Investment Involvement Website Return On Investment

Author:Kevin Roberts

“Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.”

Wealth Careers Investment Investing Engines Best Investment Financial Success Investing Money Invest In Yourself

Author:Paul Clitheroe

“I don't think investment is that hard. It's doing the simple things on a regular basis.”

Thinking Hard Simple Bases Investment Simple Things

Author:Paul Clitheroe

“Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).”

Way Essentials Investment Leisure Leisure Time

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.”

Facts Investment Telling The Truth

Author:Pam Houston

“Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.”

Years Two Film Next Groups Cost Investment Productions Significant Fund Fewer Portions Next Year Slate Hedge Fund

Author:Peter Bart

“For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.”

Wells Numbers Perspective Investment China Partners Destination Trading Korea Trading Partners

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.”

People World Giving Should Doe Christian Grace Building Projects Eternal Investment Kingdoms Fund Strategic Delivery Needy God's Grace Portfolios

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

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