Investing Quotes · Page 137

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

— John Tiffany

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

— Jensen Huang

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

— Benjamin Graham

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

— Steve Largent

“Buffett knows that a down market is when investors should be buying, not selling.”

— Larry Swedroe

I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community…

— Tammy Blanchard

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

— T. Harv Eker

Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

— Eden Hazard

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money;…

— Sarah Lacy

The cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to…

— Charlie Munger

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our…

— David Milne

In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but…

— Frederick Scott Oliver

I am pleased with the response of investors towards Philips Lighting and the successful pricing of the I.P.O. This strategic milestone will…

— Frans van Houten

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which…

— Peter Thiel

Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next…

— Marc Davis

When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not…

— Nicki Chapman

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the…

— Rene Descartes

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep…

— Juan Somavia

In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and…

— Benjamin Graham

“It’s just human psychological truth really. Anything acquired without effort and without cost investment of time and energy is generally unappreciated within…

— Scott Abel

A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you're staking something more precious - your time.…

— Daniel Lyons

Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security…

— Joel Salatin

With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that…

— Warren Buffett

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it…

— Elon Musk

The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.

— Nigel Farage

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

— Michael Steinhardt

Todays market does not need hard working donkeys and loyal dogs. They want healthy horses and smart wolves, who will not last…

— Sanji-Paul Arvind

“Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.”

— Jeffrey Friedland

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

— Arthur Levitt

Every advertisement is part of the long term investment in the personality of the brand.

— David Ogilvy

“A successful investor is generally a well-rounded individual who puts a natural curiosity and an intellectual interest to work.”

— Burton G. Malkiel

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

— Junot Diaz

“Without a saving faith in the future, no one would ever invest at all.”

— Benjamin Graham

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

— Regis Philbin

“market transactions do not necessarily provide people with what they want; they provide people with what they think they want.”

— Eduardo Porter

The stock company, as I knew it is dead. Road companies are few and far between. Still the theater must survive.

— Van Heflin

“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

— Blaise Pascal

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

— John Stossel