Investment Quotes - Page 12

• I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like, buy what you can afford - and I'm not just saying that because I'm a dealer. You can't be so paralyzed to where you keep saying, "I've got to learn more." The best way to learn is to go home and actually put something on the wall. Then you've got an investment. Then you're living with it. Then you're in the game.

  Larry Gagosian

  Wall, Home, Games

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.

  Larry Gagosian

  Artist, Ideas, Faces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.

  Signe Baumane

  Player, Personality, Individuality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Country, Mean, Innovation

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.

  Steve Gaynor

  Player, Games, Dollars

  "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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• We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has been successfully demonstrated and there are full-scale both conventional and unconventional coal projects with CCS that are moving forward. So there is no question that there's continued investment in this technology.

  Gina McCarthy

  Moving, Technology, Data

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Political, Groups

  "Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 13, 2009.

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• We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science

  Seth Klarman

  Art, Believe, Risk

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• In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much from a standard path except on the upside. Well, that is a very artificial, crazy construct. That's the equivalent in investment management to the custom of binding the feet of Chinese women

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Winning, Feet

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• A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side

  Michael Mauboussin

  Thoughtful, Your Side, Ideas

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• In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Library, Investing

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• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Giving, Effort, Might

  "How Innovation Can Fuel Your Giving" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Eggs, Bankers, Golden

  Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

  Debora Spar

  Way, Drains, Throwing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Opportunity, Vietnam, Benefits

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our government's investments in science, technology and innovation are ensuring that ideas move from the lab to the marketplace faster, creating jobs and opportunities for Canadians. Through our investment in Mitacs Elevate, we are providing training and new career opportunities for talented researchers while ensuring that local businesses such as Vision Extrusions stay competitive and continue to create jobs here in Woodbridge.

  Julian Fantino

  Jobs, Moving, Technology

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• Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.

  Mary Schapiro

  Opportunity, Balance, Target

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• For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

  Charles Roven

  Home, Long, Video

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• Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Causes, Saving

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• Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Desire, Culture, Each Day

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

  Mark Cuban

  Cards, Credit, Worst

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• How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Zero, Children, Kids

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• Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could.

  Amy Lockwood

  Strong, Believe, Government

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• The way forward for Africa is investment.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Way Forward, Way

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• Ontario's auto sector is a cornerstone of our economy - a key source of our ability to export, innovate and create jobs. In this highly competitive global economy, we need to drive further investment and ensure the sector remains strong. I am confident that this new partnership, with Ray Tanguay's strategic advice and leadership, will allow Ontario to increase our competitiveness, productivity, and market share in the auto sector, and I look forward to their important work contributing to a more prosperous, innovative Ontario economy.

  Brad Duguid

  Strong, Jobs, Keys

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