My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
We knew we made a mistake in 2014. We didn't pick music that was dear to our hearts and weren't personally invested in a program. We vowed to never do that again.
I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.
It's always useful to know that people are emotionally invested in a series because it means that you can take them down a certain road, and they should be interested.
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.
Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.
I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.
I know my Trotskyites well, and I know you don't want to be invested in the U.K. if a Trotskyite is prime minister.
A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.
I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.
I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.
Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to.
I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.
I'm not scared of many sectors, so if you look at my investment portfolio, it is pretty wide. I've invested in anything from market research firms to fashion houses and textile companies.
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.
You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested
Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.
The reason why we decided to put the focus on minority and women-funded startups is because this demographic of companies and founders is just underrepresented, they're under-invested in.
You know he's invested when he doesn't treat his 'friend time' and 'girlfriend time' as mutually exclusive.
The Trump administration has struggled with ethics vetting for Cabinet nominees and faced criticism for the president's decision to remain invested in his business empire.
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
I really wanted to do 'Darna.' I invested so much time, so much effort.
The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.
In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.
People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.
In my state, I created a Clean Energy Fund and invested in electrifying our transportation system - from vehicles and buses to transit and even ferries.
When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.
I was one of the top paid guys at Impact, thankfully. With that money, I invested a bunch of it and I've been taking classes on learning day trading with stocks.
I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
I had a good career and I am from a well-to-do family; I have invested well.
When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.
I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We've got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
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