Investing Quotes · Page 83

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'

— Spike Jonze

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Enterprises of different ownerships should all enjoy fair opportunities and conditions to compete in the market.

— Li Keqiang

“To be a successful small business marketer you need laser-like focus on a narrow target market, sometimes called a niche.”

— Allan Dib

Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.

— Shiv Nadar

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

— Lee Myung-bak

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

— Hillary Clinton

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

— Howard Rheingold

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things…

— Linus Torvalds

The difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think…

— Milton Friedman

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are…

— Margaret Thatcher

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea…

— Bill Gates

“We added that the stock component should carry a fair degree of protection against a loss of purchasing power caused by large-scale…

— M.K. Gandhi

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of…

— Warren Buffett

“In the words of Richard Driehaus, "The stock market is like a woman. You observe her. You respond to her. And you…

— Gary Antonacci

“For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more…

— H.L. Mencken

Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic…

— Douglas Valentine

Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present…

— Ron Paul

“From my perspective, there wasn’t much difference between a socialist movement, a nationalist movement, and a brutal brawl in the black market.…

— Masaji Ishikawa

If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be…

— Noam Chomsky

We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed…

— Alexander Stubb

Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry…

— John C. Bogle

What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“Citizens may recoil from paying for the news, he noted, because they see it as a natural right. But in the absence…

— Brooke Gladstone

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

— Mo Ibrahim

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

— Fred Wilson

The key is to service a market that has not been serviced to its full potential.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue…

— Chris Sacca

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one…

— Warren Buffett

Members of Congress - with or without inside information - simply should not be allowed to trade stocks.

— Annie Lowrey

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its…

— Eugene Fama

A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job)

— Robert Kiyosaki

We have to find creative ways to allow people to get around, and allow goods and services to get to market.

— Colin Allred

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

— David F. Swensen

I'm going to stash up my cash and invest in real estate. I want to be set up for the end of…

— Michael Chandler

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

— Daniel Kahneman

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

— Warren Buffett

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

— Barack Obama

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

— Nick Murray