Investment Quotes - Page 14

• A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

  Anne Bogart

  Real, Soul, Return

  Anne Bogart (2014). “What's the Story: Essays about Art, Theater and Storytelling”, p.18, Routledge

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• Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

  James Altucher

  Reading, Order, People

  "The ultimate cheat sheet for what you should do with all of your money" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. April 6, 2014.

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• If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

  Kurt Andersen

  Honesty, Political, Intellectual

  "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.

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• So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature things like Merrill's recapitalization of Sierra Pacific. I guess including "helping Enron achieve its earnings goals in 1999" might be a little awkward given that Merrill Lynch bankers are currently on trial in Houston for that "accomplishment."

  Bethany McLean

  Years, Accomplishment, Goal

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• Millennium Trails will be very tangible gifts to the future. We will walk on them and hike on them and bike on them. They will be accessible to people of all ages and abilities. But in a very important way they represent more than the tangible effect of the trail. They represent a commitment and an investment in what kind of country we want in the next century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Commitment, People

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• Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

  Nick Murray

  Investment Success, Long, Portfolios

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• Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Innovation, Trends

  Clayton Christensen (2013). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mind, Sound, Chance

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• I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make

  John Paulson

  Home, Thinking, Buying

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• Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

  Will Rogers

  Real, World, Estates

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• Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Building, Term

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• No one else has an investment in your personal life as you do.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Personal Life

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• Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Creating, People

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• Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

  Benjamin Franklin

  Profitable

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• Solyndra is a great investment in our future

  Barack Obama

  Our Future

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• Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Decision, Fundamentals

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• Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Payroll Tax

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.

  Richard Karn

  Country, Real, Hype

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• The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

  Murray Rothbard

  Jobs, Saving, Way

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• Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

  Dick Morris

  Moving, Growth, Needs

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• In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Jobs, Loss, President

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• The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.

  Richard Thaler

  Should Have, Years, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.

  Richard Thaler

  Russia, Class, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• In a typical 401k plan, when you first become eligible you get a big pile of forms and you're told, fill out these forms if you want to join. Tell us how much amount you've saved and how you want to invest the money. In, under automatic enrollment you get that same pile of forms but the top page says, if you don't fill out these forms, we're going to enroll you anyway and we're going to enroll you at this saving rate and in these investments.

  Richard Thaler

  Typical, Saving, Want

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  Murray Rothbard

  Eggs, Golden, Rich

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