Top 1200 Investment Success Quotes & Sayings

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service revolves around the attainment of adequate diversification, the preservation of a long-term outlook, the ease of handling investment decisions and mechanics, and most importantly, the avoidance of the patently inferior investment techniques which seem to entice some individuals.

Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

Having great clients is the key to investment success.

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

While knowing how to value businesses is essential for investment success, the first and perhaps most important step in the investment process is knowing where to look for opportunities

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

I have an investment in not being crazy. I have a real investment in seeing things straight. This runs counter to that investment, so it required giving up an idea of myself, the idea being that I had control.

Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.

The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

The risk of an investment is described by both the probability and the potential amount of loss. The risk of an investment-the probability of an adverse outcome-is partly inherent in its very nature. A dollar spent on biotechnology research is a riskier investment than a dollar used to purchase utility equipment. The former has both a greater probability of loss and a greater percentage of the investment at stake.

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

Investment in our people through education, no matter at what level, is an investment in economic development.

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.

I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

India needs three things for its energy sector: investment, investment, and investment.

I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.

There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

The culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty and investment, with funds run by investment professionals. The firm I worked with, Wellington Management Co., they had one fund. That was very typical in the industry... investment professionals focused on long-term investing.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

An investment in housing is an investment in family stability, children's success, and the economic health of our entire state.

There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way.

Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.

Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.