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“We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."”

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Author:Bill Gates

“And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?”

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Author:Jamie Dimon

“From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.”

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Author:John L. Casti

“Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.”

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Author:Robert F. Engle

“I think what we need is better understanding of how to do risk analysis of a CDO, but that they still can perform a very valuable function because they can aggregate these risks and pass them around so that mortgages or other kinds of loans can be packaged and sold to investors all over the world, who in most times, would justify a small amount of each one.”

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Author:Robert F. Engle

“Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.”

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Author:Mark Mobius

“Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.”

Comfort Rewards Favors Investors Chasing

Author:Robert D. Arnott

“For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from their houses. That is called "jingle mail," returning the keys to the bank and saying, "You can have the house. I can buy the house next door that's just like this for 20% less, so I'm going to save money and switch." That's what someone like Donald Trump or a real estate investor would do. But the banks are trying to convince the mortgage debtors, the homeowners, not to act in their own self-interest.”

“When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“A bubble is only called that after it bursts, after the insiders get out, leaving the pension funds and small investors, Canadians and other naïve investors holding the bag.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.”

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Author:Ryan Holmes

“I think there's a lot we could do that maybe would give a little more decision space to CEOs, to shareholders who want to hold for the long term, to investors who want to be part of the long term, that they would maybe have a little more room to withstand the pressure that is otherwise coming down on them.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.”

Ifs Thinking May Fighting Actors Influence Directors Studios Investors Relevant

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.”

Attention Draws East Partners Investors

Author:Vladimir Putin

“A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves.”

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Author:Mark Hulbert

“Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.”

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Author:Mark Hulbert

“Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.”

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Author:Mark Hulbert

“Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.”

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Book:The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Source: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

“All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.”

Ifs Made Would Be Decision Investors Fewer

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.”

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Author:Michael Burry

“The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Just as outright euphoria is often a sign of a market top, fear is for sure a sign of a market bottom. Time and time again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only treasury bills, you can almost close your eys and get long stocks.”

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Author:Michael Steinhardt

“There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“I have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees. I mean, honestly, I have brilliantly - I have brilliantly used those laws.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be a guaranteed U.S. renewable energy market in which they can compete. Otherwise, they will create the next generation of green companies and green jobs in Asia, not here.”

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Author:Van Jones

“If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.”

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Author:Paul Young

“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.”

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Author:Gary Shilling

“Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.”

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Author:Gary Shilling

“We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.”

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Author:Jamie Dimon

“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.”

“If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.”

Knows Trump Russia Investors Portfolios

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“I am very favorable to the Bourse, to a sale, to what is useful to grow, maintaining jobs, the Made in Italy. It doesn't make any sense and it's parochial to think otherwise. Investors can be French, Russian, as long as they help a business grow.”

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Author:Franca Sozzani

“I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

“I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

“My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You need to be able to do that to market these possibilities to these specific investors who would be interested in a sector of that kind. It's what would be normally done by anybody with regard to attracting investment to particular sectors of the economy.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is precisely because we have gone out to talk to the automobile companies to explain government policy with regard to that sector, to talk to them about the MIDP and things like that. And indeed, it has been a very important part of attracting those investors to put in money in the South African economy and build motorcars in South Africa.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“For an investor who is sitting in the United States, and South Africa is very far from the United States, you need to go out to that investor to say, these are the possibilities in this particular sector.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.”

“We need to do a lot of restructuring of the existing ports, particularly Durban. The separation of oversight and regulation from operations in the port, the possibility of bringing in private investors, to put in new investment to build capacity in the port. So, the restructuring of the ports will take place like that.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.”

Knows Plans Protect Investors Billionaire

Author:Tony Robbins

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