If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space.

In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

It's inspiring to watch people love my dad and want to work with him. I feel that same investment in making sure people are happy.

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.

The one thing I always say to myself is I want to make sure that when a team invests in me that they get their investment's worth.

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.

Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don't pay for the cost of capital.

Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.

For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

While U.K. is one of India's most important trade and investment partners, India has become one of the largest investors in the U.K.

I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.

One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because of my investment, we got promoted.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.

In September 2014, the USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to be invested over a 2-3 year period.

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