Investment Quotes (1683 Quotes)

The first time I approached Mr. Massey about investing, he told me to come down and catch him after a board meeting of the Baptist Hospital.

This sounds ironic, but the growing need for fresh labor and investment are now weighing on profit trends, together with high levels of commodity prices.

It's time to trade out of investments whose success depends on a strong economy... for both stocks and corporate bonds.

Investors express concern about taxes and the tax implications of investing but are confused by a subject hat can become complicated very quickly.

It takes time. It's like stock. You go up and down with it, but if it's solid and it's a good stock, it will pay off. This is a good investment. For this community and this county, I think it is absolutely the right thing to do.

Petroleum earnings go up and down with the volatility in the openly and globally traded commodities in which we deal. ... History teaches us that punitive measures hastily crafted in reception to short-term market manipulations, will likely have unintended negative consequences including creating disincentives for investment.

Given the demands of a growing population, and with real estate becoming the safe haven for investment, many factors are in place for a continuation of strong home sales.

We're a big laboratory in how to absorb so much investment. None of us could have dreamed this would happen this quickly.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Companies are cautious and are slowly increasing information technology investments. It's not going gangbusters, just steady.

The business has been phenomenal for the tribe. They run their business in a very democratic way and the casino proceeds have allowed them to do many things for the reservation and the community. They're very careful how they make outside investments, which is a good thing.

I bought this place, obviously, as an investment. One always looks to maximize the allure. I saw it as an opportunity to showcase the house to celebrities and the type of people who might be interested in buying it one day.

We're coming close to tripling our investment. Standalone, it's a huge investment, and it's growing.

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

The local government investment pool, in retrospect, was a good investment. We haven't spent a whole lot of the money yet, but that's because we're spending time doing the planning, trying to get all the land purchases and all that other stuff before we start spending, ... We're following the philosophy of measure twice, cut once.

The most important thing is don't chase returns because somebody had good returns in the prior year. You want to focus on the team running a fund the long-term returns and understand the investing philosophy.

I would prefer a total stock market fund if it's going to be their only investment, but if it's the first of many funds I'd go with the SP 500 Index Fund.

With all the investment that's going to happen in the area, we thought it was a good time to consider making some changes.

Investments are also being made on the solutions front, with organizations like HCL developing specific tools, technology components and methodologies to help companies improve the overall value of their outsourcing relationship.

Our definition of second homes has changed with the buyer shift toward investment property, ... In examining Census data to determine the number of investment units, we see that second homes are a much larger share than the conventional mind-set of them being mostly vacation homes.

In this case all that has been achieved is that the state has influenced an investment decision in the directions of stocks and bonds rather than property.

You can make smart investing choices even when the winds of the investing world don't favor your style.

We saw a big rebound in corporate profits and that's a good signal for continued business investment. That generally leads to hiring, which will help keep consumption going.

Instead of investing in projects to give people jobs, they spend millions buying weapons and private jets, and sending gifts to Haiti.

Stagflation is rearing its ugly head, ... Slower consumer spending and disappointing business investment are causing slower growth, high unemployment and wages that lag inflation.

What the Clinton-Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made,

Without a doubt the investments flows into Brazil by foreign investors are bolstering the real.

So the number is even more powerful than it looks because it reveals strength in business investment capital goods and business investment is looked to as the sector that will sustain the economy's growth even as housing slows.

Micron is one of the industry leaders with a new generation of products and leading-edge manufacturing technology. Our goal in making this equity investment is ensuring an adequate supply of memory components, particularly Direct RDRAM. This is a significant strategic investment that supports our microprocessor road map into 2000 and beyond.

The cooperation we have in training personnel will increase to the number of millions we'll invest.

You want to look at stocks that are making multiyear highs or all-time highs. Those companies have a lot of support out there in the investment community. People think these companies are doing well, but if you want to buy a stock that's up from 1 to 3, maybe they survive and maybe they don't, that's just a riskier approach.

We are in the middle of a very important technology cycle, ... The companies who cut back on investment now, when the recovery comes, will be stuck with 8-inch capacity...compared to other players who moved to 12-inch.

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

People are playing off the benefit of investing alongside Hart against the operations of the business, which still continue to be under quite a bit of pressure,

We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Consumers continue to spend their earnings from the stock market and other investments. Even with the correction we've seen recently, the average investor is still significantly ahead of where they were two years ago and is still willing to spend a little of those earnings.

We're a little disappointed because I'd been pretty confident we were going to have a summer date. But our main goal was to keep professional golf in Connecticut so we can give money back to charity, and this gives us an avenue to do that. We'll have a date and a six-year investment, so we're going to move on, hope for the best and do whatever possible to be as successful as we can.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

There's 1.3 billion that you've not appropriated that we've asked for ... This is the time when we really should be investing,

The new fiscal year started so there is new money flowing into the market in the form of new investment, so there is a lot of buying pressure in the market.

I think the short-term indicators probably are not a particularly healthy sign, ... Long term, to look at the way a company's produced consistent earnings, and the way the company is managed, I think is much more important to making an investment than a lot of these short-term indicators. But, in a bull market, there's no such thing as bad news. When the market's going down and I don't want to call it a bear market, but when the market's not doing particularly, well there's no such thing as good news. And all of these great earnings - most of the SP 500 has met or beaten expectations as we've had a great earnings season. And the market doesn't really seem to care. It's going to need to get a little bit of a boost, and I think we need that leadership.

Solid levels of investing in traditional industries are being complemented by renewed interest in promising, fast-growing niches.

One of the difficulties of our sport is how difficult it is to compete in and win. It slows people down. You don't just pop in and out of NASCAR. It's a calculated investment.

Oil has become a safe harbor for a lot of investment money.

Their work on behalf of the state of Texas was absolutely appropriate, and a good return on our investment.

There's obviously a lot of opportunity in Asia. It helps their global presence, but is not going to move the needle. The real core issue for the investment community is less about international and more what is going on domestically for the entire brand and company.

They can't all happen at once, so, it's a matter of what goes first, what will create the most momentum for the most investment. And we think one of these two can do that.

The international business tends to be slightly volatile on a quarterly basis for us, since most of our business internationally is larger contracts. Overall, our international orders are down over 15 percent year to date. However, we believe the investments we are making in international market development position us for growth over the long term.

That's an insane amount of money to be investing in these old and severely challenged reactors. This is a bad investment.