Investing Quotes - Page 13

• It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

  William Booth

  Stupidity, Battle, Shapes

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Oil

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

  Donovan Bailey

  Fun, Real, Moving

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

  Shelley Berkley

  Jobs, Doe, Construction

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• In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.

  Thomas Carper

  Commitment, Home, Air

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

  Maria Cantwell

  Community, Needs, Back To Work

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• One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Angel, Risk, Lucky

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Creating Things, Paper

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• But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Acumen, Information, Way

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• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Men

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• People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Needs, Incentives

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• I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.

  Guy Pearce

  Distance, Wife, People

  Source: collider.com

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• China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Opening Up, China

  "The accidental hyperpower: an interview with Amy Chua". Interview with Fritz Lanham, www.chron.com. December 2, 2007.

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• Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

  Patrick Wolff

  Long, Want, Chess

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• Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

  Puggy Pearson

  Knowing, Gambling, Three

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• While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Paper, Resorts

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• If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Order, Currency

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• I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Country, And Love, Employment

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• Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Gold, Silver

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Past, Years, Experts

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• The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

  Jay Leno

  Hurt, News, Tomorrow

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• The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

  Walter Bagehot

  Aids, Cardinals, Establishment

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

  Charles Darwin

  Cells, Nucleus, Structure

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• If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

  Warren Buffett

  Average, Years, People

  Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 2004.

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• Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Ignorance, Politics

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