Investing Quotes - Page 38

• Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

  George Osborne

  People, Saving, Infrastructure

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• I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Ideas, Creating, Together

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• I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Personality, Fit

  "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'". Interview with Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Add, Faults

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

  George Soros

  Freedom, Home, America

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

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• A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Essentials

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

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• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Dollars, Enforcement

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

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.26, Random House

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• We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

  Jay Weatherill

  Government, Waste, Infrastructure

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  Fred Wilson

  Years, Careers, Long

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• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Talking, People, Dollars

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Science, Old Things

  “FBI revisiting Clinton emails just latest in long history of 'October Surprises“ by Chad Pergram, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2016.

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• Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

  Albert Einstein

  Money, World, Pay

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• From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Equality, Law, People

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 6: "Equality, Value and Merit", 1960.

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• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Twenties, Cards

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• It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Insightful

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• It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Blood, Perfect, Flesh

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Thinking, Helping Others

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• Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

  Rick Riordan

  Numbers, Lucky, Brazil

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• You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment, Results

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