Investment Quotes - Page 32

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Doctors, America, Bankers

  This Week with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

  Keanu Reeves

  Fake People, Actors, Intimate

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• If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

  Tim Robbins

  Wise, Running, Ideas

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• What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

  Mitt Romney

  Ambition, Wish, Attention

  "Privately devout Romney worships with his family" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.

  Mitt Romney

  Income, Saving, Gains

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• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

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• Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Cutting, America

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  Hans Rosling

  School, Opportunity, Rights

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• I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Want, Rich

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Opposites, People, Panic

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• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Pain, Sacrifice, Class

  "Interview with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz" by John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2011.

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• If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Jobs, Compassion

  "Hip-Hop Pioneer Shares His Vision for the Occupy Wall Street Movement". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  Mark Skousen

  New Orleans, Cards, Social

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• The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

  Mark Skousen

  Reality, Want, Gains

  The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 60, Nr. 3-10, (p. 7), 2010.

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• You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Vaccines, People, Rich

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• When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

  Arlen Specter

  Education, Believe, Students

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Ideas, People, Band

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• Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

  John Sununu

  Art, Wall, War

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• You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Long, Growth

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• What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

  James Surowiecki

  Community, Doe, Share

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• The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.

  James Surowiecki

  Years, Facts, Financial

  "The Goldman Hearings: Levin vs. Wall Street". www.newyorker.com. April 27, 2010.

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• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Technology, Practice

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• Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

  James Surowiecki

  Father, Commitment, Well Being

  "Through the Roof". www.newyorker.com. May 08, 2006.

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• What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Cost, Wages

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