Investment Quotes - Page 23

• I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Running, New York

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• [My wife] has some investments and stuff.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wife, Stuff, My Wife

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• I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

  Jesse Jackson

  House, Firsts, Small Business

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Commitment, Needs

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The economy is best revived through heavy investment in infrastructure.

  Raila Odinga

  Economy, Infrastructure, Heavy

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Policy Making, Ideas, Currents

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Opportunity, Views, Creating

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Brexit and Trump have brought the problems of capitalism into sharp relief, but both are only making things worse. Take the investment challenge - businesses invest where there they see technological or market opportunity.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Opportunity, Challenges, Relief

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Bridges, Focus, Needs

  Source: www.salon.com

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• While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Growth, Vision, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• My specific concerns with Trump's plans are that they are likely to investments in infrastructure where the private returns are highest (for example toll roads and bridges) rather than where the public gains are greatest.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Bridges, Example, Tolls

  Source: www.salon.com

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• What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Risk, Innovation, Growth

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Taken, Fighting, Corruption

  Source: time.com

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• The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

  Barack Obama

  Able, Problem, Faster

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Order, Community

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?" Or Asian Americans who say, "Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place."

  Barack Obama

  Community, African American, Asian

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

  Barack Obama

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [Sovereignty] would break the American monopoly, but it would also break Internet business, because you'd have to have a data center in every country. And data centers are tremendously expensive, a big capital investment.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Data, Internet Business

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• I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

  Simon Sinek

  Momentum, Littles, Months

  Source: advisor.tv

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• I call children "our ultimate investment."

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Ultimate

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Two, Want

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Gun, Liquor

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Whether it's being repealing or replacing Obamacare, rolling back excessive regulations, making the kind of investments that'll support infrastructure, or reducing taxes and reforming business taxes across the country. That's just a sampling of the things that we're working on right now.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Obamacare, Support

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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