Investing Quotes · Page 199

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

— Salman Khurshid

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

— Ben Bernanke

Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

— Winnie Byanyima

Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.

— Barry Gardiner

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

— Mitch Kapor

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

— Steve Wozniak

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“Babies were born, old people died, stocks were traded, and someone faked an orgasm. All in those five seconds.”

— Alice Clayton

“He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire…

— James Aldridge

In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will…

— Stan Shih

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

— Jeff Bezos

In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business.They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with…

— Michael Burry

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market…

— Bill Gates

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not…

— George Soros

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a…

— Warren Buffett

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market…

— Rita Ora

“Beginning in infancy (or even before) each of us, in response to perceived threats to our well-being, develops a false self: a…

— Cynthia Bourgeault

Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and…

— Justin Martyr

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into…

— George Soros

America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of…

— Ann Bridge

“[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments…

— Anita Brookner

When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares…

— Al Franken

After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised…

— Kabir Sehgal

So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose…

— Warren Buffett

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

— James Packer

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

— Howard Schultz

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

— Warren Buffett

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

— Shelley Berkley

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

— Mitt Romney

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I…

— Anonymous

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

— George Soros

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.

— Janet Yellen

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

— Warren Buffett

Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.

— Steve Ballmer

I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.

— Ryan Zinke

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

— Dean Williams

You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.

— Peter Jones

It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face…

— Jim Gray

“I’m not an investor. I like to make technologies real that I think are important for the future and useful in some…

— Ashlee Vance