Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.
I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.
For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.
I went into investments out of interest and thought I knew a little. The longer I've been involved, the less I realise I'd known.
Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.
With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.
It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
Markets - on their own - will not make investments in the technologies and infrastructure that would benefit an entire industry.
One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.
The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.
Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
India is a fast-growth market and is developing a lot. We continue to increase our partners here and make investments.
I'm in a collective with the same guys I met on the streets at 12. The greatest investments I ever made were those friendships.
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.
You can't build a fashion business with a short-term perspective, unless you're prepared to make investments that you know are not going to pay dividends immediately.
Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.
The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.
People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.
After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments
Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
In addition to their risky investments, the big banks have a history of breaking the law whenever it suits their purpose, which is to make more money.
I made my money with good investments, I'm going to make maybe $1 million a year just with my real estate.
Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
The aim of my government is to set up an industrial park at Dhamra. It will bring more investments to the state.
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.
If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?
If there are possibilities for strengthening investments, they will not fail because of us. Emmanuel Macron is right when he says that we need to do more and talk less.
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Never put your savings in risky investments. Only disposable income should find its way there.
I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.
The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.
Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.
Mutual investments of Israeli and American companies strengthen economic ties between the two countries and contribute to Israel and to the U.S. alike.
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