Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be
No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.
If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.
I did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.
There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
I'm just absolutely convinced we have to educate our way to a better economy. That's the only way we're going to get there. This is the best long-term investment we can make. And so I think it's my job to be the truth-teller.
All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.
It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment
Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.