Financial Investment Quotes - Page 2

• Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Years, Weather

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• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  Dan Gelber

  Strong, School, Florida

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• I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Financial, Investment

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• The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Moving, Thinking

  "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

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• Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia. I understand there's lots of Eastern Grays around this area. What do you say? Are you in?' Bergman looked at him like he'd just made the worst financial investment of his life. 'Kangaroos are wild animals. I've heard they claw like girl fighters and kick like jackhammers. You're going to get your skull crushed.' Cole held up a finger. 'Or I'm going to pet a kangaroo. How cool would that be?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Girl, Couple, Animal

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• If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

  James Dyson

  Writing, Heart, Emotional

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• I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

  Mili Avital

  Emotional, Israel, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

  Meg Cabot

  Thinking, Creative, May

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