Investment Quotes (1683 Quotes)

If you look at future demand, we need to decide the next investment. Either it (will be) the same size investment as the first one or a bigger one. We don't know yet.

To scale up vet services is a pretty tall order. They haven't had the level of investment they should have had during the last three or four decades. And you can't suddenly turn a switch to get vet services working well. You have got to train the vets. You have to build the systems.

The power of the Internet players, and the investments they're making in video, is a threat in and of itself.

In China, one area of great potential is the consumer market. Industries where there is potential for consolidation are also attractive, as private equity firms are interested in growth markets where they can easily exit their investments.

She's not one of those people who shows up at investment conferences or dazzles the world with (analyst) predictions. She's not much of a public figure, but her record is so great that nobody who is seriously considering investing internationally ignores her.

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We'll have to see how the next several quarters play out before we see if investment is returning to former levels.

If an individual is making 200,000 a year and is in the 36 percent tax bracket, maybe municipal bonds make sense. Now that they are making 60,000 or 80,000 from investments, should they own municipal bonds Maybe not.

On the president's tax proposal, he argued that the president wants to make the wealthy wealthier. ... It's been basically scraps for the investments in education and in healthcare.

There are a lot of people who see redeveloping the inner-city areas as a good investment.

To give more Americans access to broadband, we need to encourage this kind of infrastructure investment, not discourage it with burdensome regulations.

People often confuse financial planning with investing, but financial planning is much broader than that.

I'm extremely pleased to be joining the company that is playing an attractive role in the areas of convergence, IMS enablement and network evolution, ... ITS' technological innovation and growth trajectory, coupled with its leadership in Value Added Solutions with unique value propositions and compelling return on investment models, make it uniquely positioned to win in the global marketplace. I'm fully committed to helping carriers and customers around the world to launch innovative and lucrative services, and to accelerating the company's success in the marketplace.

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

Today's council action once again demonstrates the tremendous and widespread support for this project, which means jobs, opportunities and investment.

Rising business investment may have boosted demand for imported goods and stalled a further improvement in the trade deficit in January. We still are upbeat on exports, with commodity prices rising and strong global demand.

History teaches us that punitive measures hastily crafted in response to short-term rises in prices will have unintended consequences and disincentives to investment,

The time is right to look at things like our corporate tax rate itself, and specific areas of stimulating the economy in terms of investment of plant equipment and competitive depreciation regimes.

We have a tremendous opportunity to develop and grow our presence in the European institutional marketplace. Mark's 20 years of investment product experience and proven expertise in strategic planning and implementation will be integral in bringing to this audience the same asset management and client service solutions that have made Evergreen remarkably successful in the U. S.

If we find that instead of a legitimate sales seminar and a free meal, seniors are being exposed to pitches for unsuitable products, with high-pressure sales tactics and wild claims about projected returns, and no disclosure of the actual risks of the investment, we'll move in hard and fast.

Earnings may surprise on the upside because of stronger than anticipated credit growth. There's been a very significant and sustained pick-up in business lending to fund capital investment.

An easing of the burden for highly taxed companies is unavoidable if we want to keep Germany competitive. That's the only way to create more scope for corporate investments.

The 100 million investment is aimed at generating eBay's long-term revenue growth. We're not interested in just being No. 1 in China but the No. 1 player in ecommerce,

(We like) stocks with a moderately high dividend give that stock support. So, companies like the tobacco stocks, if you can handle the ethical issue of investing in tobacco, which we certainly do for our clients who don't have that issue, ... These are high dividend stocks. The dividend is very secure. That's a great strategy. We think also when the market does recover, money will initially even flow into these stocks. Because on a relative basis, say a Philip Morris with a 5.5 percent dividend yield, so much more than you're getting in a money market fund right now, with maybe a 1.5 dividend yield. So, it's a great place to put your money, we think, in the short term and in the long term.

We've had to host training camps for 16 teams, rent venues and facilities in three different countries and entertain clients. It's an expensive undertaking but one which everyone involved believes to be a very wise investment.

There are contributions of consequence that are occurring across the world. I don't think we (the U.S.) are in a position at our current levels of investment in education to control or even have a strong influence on how innovation develops.

Those companies typically have small IT staffs and they typically haven't made a lot of investment in management tools.

Most companies are looking for a 12-month return on investment, or payback in the same fiscal year. It may be that the price point is too high.

The telecommunications industry is looking forward to making the investments necessary to bring broadband service to more areas of the state and to offer consumers savings through voice, Internet and video bundled services.

The goal, he stressed, is to strategize, not gamble with her money. She'll have to work to 65 to make this work, ... Being aggressive with her investments is not the solution.

Every July, 400 of the most powerful media and tech industry chieftains meet at investment banker Herb Allen's conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, for what are usually convivial discussions of megatrends and megamergers. But this year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates III laid into Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer, according to two sources, including one who witnessed the exchange in a private room,

It's very clear that in Taiwan, for example, there's a significant organized crime element that has been involved in making a business of software piracy, ... Organized crime families raise the money and then make the investments for illegal CD replication facilities in China, in Paraguay.

We are looking at everything and are looking at options we have associated with that investment, ... We will continue to focus on things like color. We think that's a real advantage and a market opportunity for us... but you should not expect to see a change on color.

It tooksix-and-a-half years, and 5.5 million of our personal investment, ... But the biggest investment we made was emotionally and psychologically.

We're forever in search of the Holy Grail of investing and that's some formula to give us the answer, ... That's the whole problem. These things work - until you try to use them.

Investors don't give a hoot about what's going on (with legal issues). As a sideshow, it's kind of interesting, but this has pretty much played out in the investment community.

China is the sleeping giant awakening. It has the money, the know-how and the investment.

In the long term, we are planning for market growth that historically follows the introduction of new console hardware. To leverage this future growth and prepare for fiscal 2008, which we expect will be the biggest year in Activision's history, we will continue to focus on investment in our product development resources and intellectual property portfolio, growing our international operations and optimizing our worldwide cost structure and resource allocation.

You're seeing new money put to use in the gold market, ... It's just the whole alternative investment, bullish mentality driving new allocations.

Especially with young people, they want an immediate return on their investment.

Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of its stock represents a very attractive investment.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casketsafe, dark, motionless, airlessit will change. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. (Clive Staples

I don't necessarily think as a station owner we're looking at it as a return on investment. I hope for 50 years we never use the generator. If it happens, you know time will tell what my return on investment will be. If it takes 20 years, it takes 20 years.

Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

People are starting to realize that Sears is moving in the right direction and is a good investment.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

This program carries an internal cost, but protecting our environment is a priority investment. Regardless of your notebook PC, pocket PC or LCD PC monitor brand, if you live in Canada, we will retrieve and dispose of it for you.

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They're doing pretty much exactly what we did three years ago. But the unanswered question in all this is what are they going to do in terms of fleet enhancement. In our experience it cost 1.5bn to upgrade our planes. I don't see that type of investment as likely from BA, as this is a very peripheral part of the overall business.

Home buyers must be absolutely sure they can afford the mortgage even if they lose the investment. You must ask 'Can I afford this mortgage based on my salary or my income' Just because the bank gave you bad advice and encouraged you do something foolish doesn't mean you should put yourself in that position.