Investment Quotes - Page 38

• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

  Kay Granger

  Issues, Aids, Expenses

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• Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Relief, Headache

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.

  Dan Jenkins

  Music, Play, Luxury

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• Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny Marriage, Pay, Interest

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• In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies changed in a way that lowered normal employment.

  Edward C. Prescott

  Employment, Way, Normal

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• Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

  Matthew Lillard

  Thinking, People, Broken

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

  Daymond John

  Revenue, Concepts

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• I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Way, Emotion

  "Shark Tank/ Episode #1.4". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Needs, Looks, Nasa

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• On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Glasses, Long

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• What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!

  Ricky Gervais

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "The Office / Downsize". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself. It teaches you that there are many ways to live a good, fulfilled life. It broadens your world view, yet makes you appreciate home all the more.

  Joel Sartore

  Home, Views, Appreciate

  "Travel Lens: Joel Sartore’s World". Interview with Sarah Polger, intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com. May 23, 2014.

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• Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

  Viviane Reding

  Policy, Industry

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• The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.

  Viviane Reding

  Issues, Decision, Competition

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• Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.

  Seth Klarman

  Focus, Risk, Target

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• Having great clients is the key to investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Keys, Investment Success, Clients

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• I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

  Seth Klarman

  Regret, Philosophy, Long

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• Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Keys, Views

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• Value in relation to price, not price alone, must determine your investment decisions. If you look to Mr Market as a creator of investment opportunities (where price departs from underlying value), you have the makings of a value investor. If you insist on looking to Mr Market for investment guidance however, you are probably best advised to hire someone else to manage your money.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Decision, Looks

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• Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Technology, Investment Success

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• To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.

  Seth Klarman

  Order, Long, Appreciate

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• For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for

  Tim Smit

  Grandchildren, Creating, Today

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• Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

  John C. Bogle

  Looks, Financial Success, Needles

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Athlete, Opportunity

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• We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

  John B. Larson

  Successful, Order, Marketing

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