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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.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“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.”

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Author:Evangeline Lilly

“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.”

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Author:Bernard Arnault

“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.”

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Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

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

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Author:John Bruton

“I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.”

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Author:Melanie Brown

“I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.”

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Author:Michael C. Burgess

“On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.”

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Author:Rocco Buttiglione

“We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.”

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Author:Traian Basescu

“As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.”

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Author:Marco Arment

“Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.”

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Author:Vikram Chatwal

“Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.”

“The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.”

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Author:Vince Cable

“In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A "good" consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.”

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Author:Mario Draghi

“I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Hard Bigs Artist Pay Fronts Pages Ordinary Investment Comic

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.”

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Author:John Engler

“If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.”

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Author:Vito Fossella

“Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'”

Wells Bigs Laughing Pieces Husband Weakness Investment Shoes Bags My Husband Clutch

Author:Emily Giffin

“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”

“Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.”

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Author:Chetan Bhagat

“I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.”

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Author:Eike Batista

“Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?”

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Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.”

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Author:Clifford Stoll

“Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?”

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Author:Bill Gross

“I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.”

Giving Years Saws Greater Investment Prosperity Counseling

Author:John Templeton

“If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.”

Ifs Humans Might Felt Chance Results Business Human Nature Cold Investment Finance Temptation Take A Chance Calculations

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.”

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Author:Hu Jintao

“Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.”

Way Writing Looks Different Together Investment Different Ways Translations

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.”

Ifs Needs Matter Stories Today Crosses Investment Consumers Enterprise Application Platforms Editing Desktop

Author:Miguel de Icaza

“There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.”

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Author:Andrea Jung

“My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.”

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Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.”

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Author:William Kristol

“I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.”

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Author:Josh Mandel

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