Investing Quotes - Page 37

• Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

  Ron Chernow

  Boys, People, Giving

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• To think is to differ.

  Clarence Darrow

  Education, Teacher, Thinking

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• I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Adoption, Scene

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• It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

  Jane Fonda

  Country, Pregnancy, People

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

  Michael Franti

  People, Resilience, Climate

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Business, Party

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• In economics, the majority is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Majority, Economics

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Enemy, Events

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

  Timothy Geithner

  Past, Play, Important

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• Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happiness, Fun, Optimism

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.109, Penguin

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  I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  Patrick Henry

  Future, Past, Judging

  Speech at Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775

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• The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hard Times, Sniping, Cynicism

  "Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens on What It's Really Like in Iraq". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2003,.

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• You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

  Reid Hoffman

  Reinventing Yourself, Investing In The Future, Reinventing

  "Networking Tips From The Ultimate Networker". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 14, 2012.

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• Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

  Hal Holbrook

  Character, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Lou Mannheim". "Wall Street", www.imdb.com. December 11, 1987.

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• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  Garrison Keillor

  Vanity, People, Greed

  "We Are Still Married : Stories & Letters". Book by Garrison Keillor, "The Meaning of Life", 1989.

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Thinking, Government

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Country, People, Kind

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• For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

  Miranda Kerr

  Simple, Feelings, Pieces

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

  Peter Lynch

  Happiness, Reading, Down And

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• The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Fear, Real

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, True Power, Add

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• The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Ignorant, Scientist, Specialty

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Patents, Making Money, Preferred Stock

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