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China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.
When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.
I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.
If you're investing in a company in the Bitcoin economy, you have to compare the valuation of the company to the valuation of the entire economy.
We will never address the race-based, systemic barriers to health care, equal housing and education without investing in underserved communities.
I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.
And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.
I have big belief in the Greek real estate market. We live in a lovely country and we need to make investing in Greek real estate more attractive.
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.
The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.
To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.
The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.
In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.
The need to go digital remains a top priority for clients, and we are investing aggressively to drive innovation and deliver digital transformation.
We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.
There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.
...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in
Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.
For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.
Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.
Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.
Many investors understandably want to do good while also doing well. But the standards for ESG investing are often unclear and sometimes contradictory.
If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even
I would rather deal with the vagaries of investing in Africa than in figuring out what the hell else Washington is going to do to the entrepreneur next.
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.
I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.
I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.