Investing Quotes · Page 147

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

— David Gates

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Profit' deals with the cash market. A 'Prophet' deals with the futures market.

— Robert D Dangoor

If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.

— Alexis Ohanian

Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market.

— Evan Goldberg

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

— Winston Churchill

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

— Buzz Aldrin

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

— Peter Drucker

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I…

— Gerry Schwartz

The truth is, when you're at the track, it was an interesting thing about stock car racing as a sport, is you…

— John C. Reilly

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small…

— Paul Samuelson

Food should be simple; it shouldn't be complicated, even down to making Knorr gravy: a Knorr stock cube and water, bit of…

— Marco Pierre White

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just…

— Waverley Root

“If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make…

— Hugh Macleod

“A strong-minded approach to investment, firmly based on the margin-of-safety principle, can yield handsome rewards. But a decision to try for these…

— Benjamin Graham

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they…

— Charles Duhigg

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must…

— Karl Marx

What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is…

— David Simon

“The initial promise of computer technology was to remove the intermediary from the financial market, or at least reduce the amount he…

— Michael Lewis

“BBQ Grills There are a number of gas grills which might be obtainable to the market. Grill professionals from different manufactures point…

— Greg Bear

“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about…

— Joel Greenblatt

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that…

— Paul Krugman

A visit to the Rennes market, one of the finest I have seen in France, alone will convince you of the virtues…

— Rachel Khoo

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

— Deng Xiaoping

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity…

— Peter Cohan

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

— Ken Kaess

Market segmentation is the single, most powerful tool in the marketing managers arsenal.

— Leigh Cowan

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

— Bill Gates

Many European countries and Japan need to free their labour markets and liberalise services to boost productivity growth.

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just…

— John G. Stumpf

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

— Sam Altman

The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.

— Erik Lindbergh

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

— Walter Schloss

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

— William J. Bernstein

Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not…

— Robert D. Arnott

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

— Tom Vilsack

“The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.”

— Randy Thurman