Quotes tagged ‘Investment’

(23 total)

“Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living.”

“When people say, 'I am investing for the long term,' it means they are losing money.”

“Farva: It doesn't matter cause I'm going to win ten million dollars. Thorny: What are you going to do with ten million dollars, and you can't say buy the Cleveland Cavaliers. Farva: I'd buy a ten-million-dollar car. Thorny: That's a good investment but I'd still pull you over. Farva: Bullshit. You c…”

— Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Farva, Kevin Heffernan, imdb.com

“I once invested in a whorehouse. I made a fortune on that place.”

— Larry David, Larry David, Larry David, imdb.com

“You steal cargo at the end of a sword. We sell that cargo to markets that will never have you. When you are strong, you are a necessary evil. When you are not strong, you are likely soon to be dead. But what you are not ever is a sound investment.”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Mr. Scott, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, imdb.com

“They say the bigger your investment, the bigger your return. But you have to be willing to take a chance. You have to understand, you might lose it all. But if you take that chance, if you invest wisely, the payoff just might surprise you.”

— Stacy McKee, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

— Warren Buffett, books.google.com

“Leaving the question of price aside, the best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of incremental capital at very high rates of return.”

— Warren Buffett, amazon.com

“All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, But Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”

— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com

“Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine, and the proof of that lies in the fact that even to this day most of my, and my family’s, wealth remains in the form of Wal-Mart stock. I think most people in our position would have hedged their bets a long time ago and diversi…”

— Sam Walton, amazon.com

“I don’t subscribe much to any of these fancy investing theories, and most people seem surprised to learn that I’ve never done much investing in anything except Wal-Mart. I believe the folks who’ve done the best with Wal-Mart stock are those who have studied the company, who have understood our stren…”

— Sam Walton, amazon.com

“The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”

— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org

“The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”

— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com

“I am trying to convince people — not only the public, but lawmakers and people in power — that investing in the frontier of science, however remote it may seem in its relevance to what you're doing today, is a way of stockpiling the seed corns of future harvests of this nation.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com

“You will spend so much energy investing in a man, trying to understand a man, and putting up with that man’s shit. Is it really because you love him? Or is it because you hate to fail?”

— G.L. Lambert, amazon.com

“An attachment is the action of taking something that is not a part of you and making it a part of you through an emotional or energetic investment.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

— Donald Trump, forbes.com

“Friendships don't magically last forty years. You have to invest in them.”

— Carrie Bradshaw, amazon.com

“Success isn’t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren’t truly emotionally invested in your work.”

— Biz Stone, amazon.com