Investment Quotes - Page 10

• Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.

  Peter Gutwein

  Jobs, Government, Creating

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• Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

  Erland Josephson

  Cancer, Dark, Doctors

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• The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.

  Laurie Simmons

  Moving, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Effort, Trying

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• Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

  Dan Quayle

  Party, Wells, Company

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  School, People, Dollars

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• As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Thinking, Space

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

  Garry Trudeau

  Ratios, Wheat, Poor

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

  Victoria Beckham

  Years, Dresses, Pieces

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

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• You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Should Have, Ideas

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• It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

  Reid Hoffman

  Track, Able, Belief

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• In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.

  Eric Bell

  Opportunity, America, Enhancement

  "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

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• Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

  John F. Kennedy

  Political, Upkeep, Politics

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Technology, Racism, Hierarchy

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

  Arie de Geus

  Ideas, People, Together

  "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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• I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don't want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Kentucky, Whales

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

  Evo Morales

  Country, People, Benefits

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.

  Narendra Modi

  Innovation, India, Constitution

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• I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Jobs, Character, Emotional

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Writing, Giving

  "The Billboard Q&A: Sheryl Crow". Interview with Ken Tucker, www.billboard.com. January 23, 2008.

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• 'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'

  Barry Ritholtz

  Long, Political, Quality

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• Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

  Kevin Kelly

  Two, Investing, Sin

  Kevin Kelly (1999). “New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World”, p.149, Penguin

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• Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

  Susan George

  America, Wealth, Accepted

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• We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Growth, Germany, Significant

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