Top 1200 Savings And Investment Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Never put your savings in risky investments. Only disposable income should find its way there.

The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.

When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the bank trust departments. Now, there are armies of smart people at private investment funds, etc . If there were a crisis now, there would be a lot more people with a lot of money ready to take advantage.

To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

Getting the economy back on its feet is properly viewed as an investment in future prosperity. When businesses and consumers confront attractive investment opportunities, often the only way to seize them is by borrowing. The same is true for government. Contrary to the pronouncements of critics of economic stimulus, these investments will not impoverish our grandchildren. Continuing to allow the economy to languish in recession is the surest way to impoverish them.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

All insulation takes energy to make it, but that is not a reason not to invest in it. The savings, for both the planet and the bank account, can be impressive.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.

There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.

We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

Don't try to buy art as an investment. Buy something you really love because you're going to have to look at it again tomorrow. And an investment can go up or down. Buy something you really adore, you really like, and you want to live with. And if you decide some years later you don't want to live with it anymore, sell it. Get out.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

When employees are first eligible for a retirement savings plan, they should be enrolled unless they choose to opt out.

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.

I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers.

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification. Because I just think the whole concept is literally almost insane. It emphasizes feeling good about not having your investment results depart very much from average investment results. But why would you get on the bandwagon like that if somebody didn't make you with a whip and a gun?

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.

The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.

I went to the bank and reviewed my savings, I found out I have all the money I'll ever need. If I die tomorrow.

Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.

Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.