Investing Quotes - Page 35

• So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Information Sharing, People, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the activists, in the United States we would still have child labor, we would still have 16-hour days.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: content.time.com

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• By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

  Ramez Naam

  Teaching, Impact, Roi

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Today, investing is no longer just a good idea for women. It is a must-have.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Successful, Absence, Discomfort

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  Usain Bolt

  Clothing Line, Jamaica, Trying

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Impact, People, Development

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• The U.S. military is investing in new storage technology because most of the weight that soldiers carry on their backs is batteries. Once that gets developed for the military, it will be expanded to civilians.

  Christiana Figueres

  Military, Technology, Soldier

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Believe, Hypocrite, Founders

  Source: www.fool.com

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• Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Airports, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Return, Should

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

  T.I.

  Community, One Day, Buying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They're moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They're moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined.

  Newt Gingrich

  Moving, Technology, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism sector and explain that this is the size of the market, these are the incentives in this particular area, this is the capacity, this is what is needed.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Tourism, Target

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to take a longer-term perspective. They tend to trade less. They tend to shift in and out of stocks or mutual funds less often.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Men, Track, Perspective

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

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• If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1.5 million, $2 million, $2.5 million. Life changing amounts.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Life Changing, Years, Income

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• Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many Western corporations investing in it. This means that it is extremely difficult to detect these assets in their pure form.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, Successful, Corporations

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

  Theresa May

  Challenges, Together, Defense

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.

  Zoe Kravitz

  People, Secret, Get Better

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.

  William Gibson

  Baby, Couple, People

  Source: craphound.com

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• We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Tanks, Research

  Source: genius.com

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• Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, United States, Rewards

  Source: genius.com

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• I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Issues, Different

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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