Best Investment Quotes

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make. ~ Mark Matteson

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make ~ Carol Bellamy

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more. ~ Will Rogers

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined. ~ Peter Thiel

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you. ~ Benjamin Franklin

If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it. ~ Tony Campolo

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make. ~ Charles M. Schwab

The best investment for poverty elimination is education. ~ Debasish Mridha

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it. ~ Benjamin Graham

Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make. ~ Carl R. Trueman

The best investment shall be to find your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

best investment you can make is in yourself. Continue to educate yourself and seek out wisdom, adding new skills and experiences that will make you more valuable. ~ Charles Conrad

Investing in your mind is the best investment
you can make. ~ Mensah Oteh

It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. ~ George Soros

Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair. ~ Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success ... all at the same time ... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make. ~ Blake Mycoskie

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. ~ John Maynard Keynes

There's no better teacher for writing than reading ... Get a library card. That's the best investment. ~ Alisa Valdes

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it. ~ Peter Lynch

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself ... The more you learn, the more you'll earn. ~ Warren Buffett

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns! ~ Randy Castillo

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place. ~ Carlos Slim

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

As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. I want each of you to know, and especially my children and grandchildren, that I know, as my grandfather did, that if you always pay an honest tithing, the Lord will bless you. It will be the best investment you will ever make. ~ Sheldon F. Child

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving. ~ John Templeton

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people. ~ Nancy Pelosi

One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want. ~ Jack Dangermond

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments. ~ Vinod Khosla

Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others. ~ George Gilder

If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor. ~ John Hagee

No thought lives in your head rent-free. Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost. ~ T. Harv Eker

she teaches that 'being' is often
better than 'doing' and that taking time out to be still and
think is often a better investment for future productivity than
cramming every waking moment with feverish activity. ~ Vicki Mackenzie Cave In The Snow

The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit. ~ Nancy Pelosi

If the book is finished - published and on the shelf - I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance. ~ Antonya Nelson

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it. ~ Adam Davidson

Have you met a banker, who is not interested in money? He loves the game, not the cash! You should bet on him. ~ Csaba Gabor

Employment robs you of the time you should invest in your destiny ~ Sunday Adelaja

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle. ~ T. Harv Eker

Self-care refers to a meaningful 
self-investment. ~ Melissa Steginus

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments. ~ Joel Osteen

Truth telling is an investment we must make in relationships - whether personal or professional. It takes a lot of time and thought, and sometimes, courage. However, there is probably not another investment of time that pays a greater dividend when done well. ~ Dee Ann Turner

Great investments don't just knock on the door and say "buy me". ~ Seth Klarman

The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits. ~ Benjamin Graham

My life, on the other hand, would increase in value, growing wiser, and richer in experience the longer I survived. I was an investment, not a liability. And I would invest everything I had into giving myself a future. ~ Pepper Winters

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America. ~ Paul A. Volcker

For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse. ~ Benjamin Graham

A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side ~ Michael Mauboussin

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise ... ~ William Safire

Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could. ~ Amy Lockwood

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times ~ John Burroughs

True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes. ~ A.K. Asnani

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ~ Miguel De Icaza

California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation. ~ Victor Davis Hanson

The market might have learned a simple lesson: Don't make loans to people who can't repay them. Instead it learned a complicated one: You can keep on making these loans, just don't keep them on your books. Make the loans, then sell them off to the fixed income departments of big Wall Street investment banks, which will in turn package them into bonds and sell them to investors. ~ Michael Lewis

The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies. ~ Michal Kalecki

The most profitable investment on the land is land. ~ Amit Kalantri

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes? ~ Mohamed El-Erian

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. ~ James Heckman

Housing is the favorite investment of the middle class and moderately well-to-do, but true wealth always consists primarily of financial and business assets. ~ Thomas Piketty

Bitcoin itself has already cycled through the familiar trajectory of rebellious alternative, promising a currency independent of the state, through to a venture-capital-funded investment vehicle in which 0.1% of the participants own 50% of the coins. The debate ~ Tom Slee

The mismanagement of money makes many overpaid people seem underpaid. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business. The threat to drop research coverage if Piper were not selected as the lead underwriter for a secondary offering was totally inappropriate and undermines the integrity of the market. ~ Mary Schapiro

The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget. ~ Jeffrey Nielsen

A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful of banks and investment companies who advertise on Fox and CNBC. ~ Matt Taibbi

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution cycles and volumes increase to endanger life-systems at all levels in cascade effects; a rising half of the world is destitute as inequality multiplies; the global food system produces more and more disabling and contaminated junk food without nutritional value; non-contagious diseases multiply to the world's biggest killer with only symptom cures; the vocational future of the next generation collapses across the world while their bank debts rise; the global financial system has ceased to function for productive investment in life-goods; collective-interest agencies of governments and unions are stripped while for-profit state subsidies multiply; police state laws and methods advance while belligerent wars for corporate resources increase; the media are corporate ad vehicles and the academy is increasingly reduced to corporate functions; public sectors and services are non-stop defunded and privatized as tax evasion and transnational corporate funding and service by governments rise at the same time at every level. ~ John McMurtry

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock. ~ Benjamin Graham

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands. ~ Malcolm Forbes