“The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.” ThinkingBelieveLittlesGuyTalkingPlansRiskAmountTruth IsRewardsAverageSpreadGiantsInvestorsMaximumBillionaireBackupTalking HeadsBackup Plan Author:Tony Robbins
“Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.” WantDutyDollarsInvestmentInvestorsEmerging Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.” WantActionActorsDirectorsStressProducersInvestorsChoreographers Author:Jackie Chan
“Most of my mentors and investors have been incredibly smart, thoughtful men. I've had the privilege of being mentored by some extraordinary men who saw something in me and took me more seriously than I knew how to take myself.” MenHas BeensSawsSmartExtraordinaryPrivilegeThoughtfulInvestorsMentorBeing Me Author:Jane Park
“I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.” IfsThinkingWould BeFunInvolvedEntrepreneurSticksCoachesContactStayingStringsInvestorsVentureRetiredEmperorReinsSuccessorsVenture Capital Author:Masayoshi Son
“There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some companies, for example, Del Monte, which produces pineapples in Kenya, pay a huge amount of taxes, I am sure, to the Kenyan government, and they do create jobs for thousands of locals.” PeopleHelpingGovernmentJobsCertainWealthPayQualityCompanyExampleProduceHugeAmountTaxesAreasLocalsInvestorsQuality Of LifeKenyaPineapples Author:Wangari Maathai
“Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.” ShouldLittlesCompanyReturnBenefitsPopulationLocalsInvestors Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.” WantKindWantedInterestingStreetsWallRepublicanLawyerPrimariesCandidatesInvestorsEstablishmentRomneyWant Him Author:Noam Chomsky
“Turbulence is a condition that we all experience during a flight when the plane is bouncing around by competing air currents. By analogy, the economy may bounce around a lot because of competing currents of public moods and investments. One week everyone might be optimistic and then suddenly something happens to turn everyone into pessimists. Investment dries up and investors become risk averse. A sudden piece of good news then turns around the public mood.” MayMightHappensTurnsEconomyPiecesRiskAirWeekConditionsNewsInvestmentCurrentsMoodThings HappenFlightOptimisticPlanesInvestorsCompetingGood NewsPessimistAnalogiesBounceBeing OptimisticTurbulence Author:Philip Kotler
“The entrepreneurial investors of the time just want to repeat themselves indefinitely and don't know when to stop. You can't do that. And so finally the housing boom, or the auto boom, or whatever it is that's been carrying things along, runs out of customers.” KnowsWantRunningCustomersRepeatsInvestorsHousingEntrepreneurial Author:Jane Jacobs
“Technology enables consumers and investors to have extraordinary choice and ease of switching, which, in turn, stimulates much fiercer competition than ever before, which, in turn, makes it imperative for every institution to innovate like mad. That innovation is powering our economy these days, and it requires companies to find and utilize creative workers. That's the most important syllogism going; technology is embedded in that syllogism, but it's not as if we're seeing these productivity gains because of the technology.” ImportantChoicesTechnologyEconomyCreativeInnovationMadCompetitionExtraordinaryProductivityInvestorsEmbeddedCreative Work Author:Robert Reich
“It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.” BrainHard WorkProducersInvestorsWork Harder Author:Robert Reich
“Given that ever-broadening array of options and alternatives, as consumers and investors, we are often bewildered. We need guidance. That's where today's brands come in. They are not so much signals about a particular product, they are signals about good judgment, trustworthiness. A big brand, whether it's Schwab or Disney, is becoming analogous to a portal that sells us advice about where we can find great deals.” AdviceJudgmentGuidanceInvestorsPortalTrustworthinessGood Judgment Author:Robert Reich
“If you're going to be a great guide to what's great for consumers, and, indirectly, for investors, you've got to be very careful about who you contract with and what you're offering.” CarefulInvestors Author:Robert Reich
“The industrial leader of the 20th century was a system-builder. He was a visionary in terms of what could be built; got the capital together; certainly convinced investors that it was possible; and then ran a high-volume production system that would spew out a vast array of almost identical goods and services. They would be changed from time to time; there was research and development, to be sure. But the system was built around production, not innovation.” TogetherTermLeaderChangedInnovationRanInvestors20th Century Author:Robert Reich
“One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.” PeopleCultureIndividualSuccessfulEmpowermentRelationEmployeeBeing SuccessfulInvestorsAmerican CultureEntrepreneurialGreat Company Author:Reid Hoffman
“Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward.” ThinkingDifferentReasonInvestorsEquityNiche Author:David Bonderman
“Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important. If you look at the skill set that you need to ultimately be a successful private equity investor, at least at the senior level, you have to be, in this business, a good investor. You have to be able to help companies perform and you have to have judgment around exiting investments. If you look at the skill sets there, they include some things you can teach and some that you can't.” ImportantHelpingTeachSuccessfulJudgmentInvestmentComplicatedInvestorsSeniorEquity Author:David Bonderman
“If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.” GivingDifferentBreakAdviceEntrepreneurInvestorsSophisticatedWorthless Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.” ImportantBuildingEmployeeInvestorsBetray Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“The truth of the matter is that we are being very aggressive, so that we can lay the foundations for investors to come to Puerto Rico, for jobs to be created, and for opportunities to ensue. And our objective, again, is for Puerto Rico, for the people of Puerto Rico who want to stay here, for them to have the opportunity to stay here.” PeopleOpportunityAggressiveInvestorsPuerto Rico Author:Ricky Rossello
“There's a law of physics: For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. And sometimes that shows up in politics and society. And I think that the reaction to President Trump's decision on the Paris Agreement has been much stronger than I had even hoped for. And the determination being expressed by so many people in state governments, city governments, in the business community, the investor community, is really heartening to me.” PeopleThinkingSometimesActionPresidentCommunityDecisionEqualDeterminationStrongerPhysicsInvestors Author:Al Gore
“Capitalism is the best way of organizing economic activity for a lot of reasons. It unlocks a higher fraction of human potential, it balances supply and demand, it's more consistent with higher levels of freedom. But the way we're pursuing it now, focuses on such short-term horizons, that a lot of businesses and investors are tempted to look at investments in terms of what's gonna happen in the next 90 days, what's gonna happen in one year. But the old phrase, "Good things take time," is true of successful businesses as well.” ReasonTermSuccessfulEconomicBalanceCapitalismGood ThingsInvestmentConsistentInvestorsTake TimeSuccessful BusinessHuman Potential Author:Al Gore
“We can be aggressive at the right time with the right stakes when it comes to price. But I think for us, it starts and ends with people. And generally speaking, venture investors will say that. Right? That people are very important. It is all about the people. But at Anthemis, it is beyond "all about the people." Because it's almost exclusively about the people. We've been operating this way for a while.” PeopleThinkingImportantAggressiveInvestorsRight Time Author:Amy Nauiokas
“The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty. When the future is uncertain, he thought that a lot of saving would be directed towards securing, securing more, getting more security in the present, rather than building wealth in the future, which was the classical view, you save in order to invest, in order to consume more later on. What he had called the propensity to hoard or liquidity preference would normally be stronger than the inducement to invest.” WealthPsychologyRiskSecurityBuildingStrongerUncertaintyInvestors Author:Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
“Investors are trying to work out some risk premiere that have some correspondence with actual risks. But they don't, they're not, they can't go very far that way, because the actual correspondence isn't really there in a lot of cases. So once people stop believing in these stories, and then the crash can come very, very quickly. They believe that house prices are correctly priced for some time and then suddenly they realized there's no real basis for that. But what is the correct price? We don't know that either. It's just that everything swings.” PeopleTryingBelieveRealHouseRiskWork OutInvestorsCrash Author:Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
“I don't fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.” RunningRememberCompassionInvestmentInvestorsNo Compassion Author:Russell Simmons
“No matter what level you're starting at, it's about not only utilizing your time, but your resources and network. For me, I started my company with a small amount of savings; I never had investors and I was lucky in the sense that I had models and connections in the fashion industry who were willing to give me advice early on. So really, for anyone starting a new business, it's really important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you. And to not let that be discouraging, but to take that advice and really learn from it and mold it to what you're trying to do.” GivingTryingImportantAdviceFashionLuckyInvestorsMentorDiscouragingFashion IndustryNew Business Author:Lauren Bush
“The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half as many artists as they did 10 years ago. Everything is risk averse right now and there are two ways to deal with a business situation like this: either reduce your risk or increase your return. They're reducing their risk to the bone and looking for ways with their 360 deals to increase their return. They're still not making money. Artists are suffering. Labels, or music investors, are suffering.” ArtistSufferingSituationRiskBonesMaking MoneyInvestorsMusic Business Author:Tom Silverman
“America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so people's standard of living can improve, and at the same time be good stewards of the environment'.” PeopleTechnologyEconomyBe GoodInvestors Author:George W. Bush
“If you want to talk further about a relationship with Russia, look no further than the Clintons. As we've said time and time again, Bill Clinton was paid half a million dollars to give a speech to a Russian bank, and was personally thanked by Putin for it. Hillary Clinton allowed one-fifth of America's uranium to - reserve to be sold to a Russian firm whose investors were Clinton Foundation donors. And the Clinton campaign chairman's brother lobbied against sanctions on Russia's largest bank and failed to report it. If you want to talk about having relations, look no further than there.” GivingBrotherRelationClintonFirmInvestorsUranium Author:Bernie Sanders
“The key quality all successful people share is the ability to inspire, to transfer our passion to other people and to bring them along with us in pursuit of our vision. I have to be able to inspire investors, actors and crews on a daily basis. What I recognize in other successful people is a similar ability to make their passion infectious.” PeoplePassionAbilityQualityVisionSuccessfulShareInspireInvestorsSuccessful People Author:Amma Asante
“We need a federal government commission to study the way our financial services system is working - I believe it is working badly - and we also need more educated investors. There are good long term low-priced mutual funds - my favorite is a total stock market index fund - and bad short term highly priced mutual funds. If investors would get themselves educated, and invest in the former - taking their money out of the latter - we would see some automatic improvements in the system, and see them fairly quickly.” BelieveLongI BelieveTermStudyFinancialMy FavoriteImprovementEducatedLong TermFundMutualInvestorsShort TermMutual FundGood Long Author:John C. Bogle
“Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional owners capitalism where most of the rewards have gone to those who make the investments and assume the risks to a new and deeply flawed system of managers capitalism where the managers of our corporations our investment system, and our mutual funds are simply take too large a share of the returns generated by our corporations and mutual funds leaving the last line investors - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund owners at the bottom of the food chain.” RiskShareCapitalismAssumingInvestmentBottomLeavingFundMutualInvestors20th CenturyFlawedPensionFood ChainMutual Fund Author:John C. Bogle
“I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors have had. It's not the economic engine that we need to focus on, but the need to make sure that our investors receive their fair share of the returns that that great economic system produces.” BelieveI BelieveFocusShareEconomicBehaviorInvestmentFundInvestors Author:John C. Bogle
“Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as consumers and as investors to avoid them like the plague. If we do, they won't last very long. Doing what's right is the only possible formula for long-term - I emphasize long term - business success.” ThinkingLongTermResponsibilityLong TermInvestorsPlague Author:John C. Bogle
“We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees and fund managers. These require "top down" intervention. But we also need investors to look after their own economic interests, a bottom up approach to our problems that is well within our individual power to undertake.” ProblemIndividualInterestEconomicDutyBottomFundRetirementInvestorsPension Author:John C. Bogle
“We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that matter, real estate. As always asset allocation and low cost and broad diversification will be essential in earning one's fair share of whatever returns our financial markets are generous enough to bestow upon us.” WorldRealEnoughShareFinancialGenerousInvestorsEquity Author:John C. Bogle
“One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.” TaxesPatientFinancialStabilityInvestorsFairnessTradingSpeculationDiscouragingHoodRobin Hood Author:Robert Pollin
“Things that people thought not possible when they were proposed and blown off become enormously successful. There are a lot of ideas that never succeed - but we all know the crazy ideas that did - who would have thought 30 years ago that people would pay $4 for a cup of coffee - but today, we have 20,000 Starbucks stores around the world. A group of prospective investors once remarked that "Google" was the "balloon company." The point is, don't rush to pooh-pooh something you don't understand or aren't willing to try - it could be something that changes the world.” PeopleWorldTryingTodaySuccessfulCrazySucceedCoffeeChanging The WorldInvestorsGoogleCoffee Cup Author:James Merlino
“I have a bad rote memory, but I tend to learn through my experiences. And then when I went into the markets, and then starting my business as an entrepreneur, that affected my thinking a lot, too, because in order to be successful as both an investor and an entrepreneur, one has to be an independent thinker and bet against the consensus and be right. Because the consensus is built into the price, and if you're not an independent thinker in the markets you won't succeed. And if you're not an independent thinker as an entrepreneur starting out, you're not going to bring anything special.” ThinkingMemoriesSuccessfulSpecialSucceedIndependentEntrepreneurBeing SuccessfulThinkerInvestorsConsensus Author:Ray Dalio
“No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain the infrastructure that a population needs to live. We don't have the federal money, and for-profit investors are just not interested in anything other than making the biggest profit they can.” PeopleEnoughHomeRichInvestorsNot InterestedRich People Author:Sharon Zukin
“Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.” PoorRichInvestorsUnspeakableCreditors Author:Naomi Klein
“When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.” PeopleArtisticInvestors Author:Jenova Chen
“Miners produce the bullion. If there is going to be more demand for gold from investors and central banks, where is the gold going to come from? They have to dig it out of the ground and sell it. As the price of gold goes higher, their profit margins increase. So if you are very bullish like I am and think there is going to be a big increase in gold, it's a huge opportunity for miners.” ThinkingOpportunityGoldInvestors Author:Peter Schiff
“The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.” IfsKnowsWayWantGivingDifferentSometimesJobsArtistFansHonestCraftsBeing HonestInvestors Author:Talib Kweli
“I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'” HappinessReadingFoundDown AndInvestingFinancialFundInvestors Author:Peter Lynch
“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” RealFearMoneyKeysInvestmentInvestingScaredMaking MoneyInvestorsBest InvestmentMakin MoneySuccessful Investing Book:Beating the Street Source: Beating the Street
“I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.” ThinkingWellsRealReasonGrowsBehindsCompanyInvestmentInvestingReason WhyInvestorsLarge CompaniesFinancial Investment Author:Peter Lynch
“Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.” ActionForceSocialResponsibilityCompanyHigherStandardsResponsibleDollarsProfitCustomersPursueCollectivesExpensesCombatInvestorsSocial ResponsibilityHigher StandardsCollective Action Author:Simon Mainwaring