Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.
By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.
I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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.
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.
None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.
I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.
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.
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.
My investments have been hurt.