Famous Quotes & Sayings

The time for Romania to start planning and implementing this investment program is now.

The worst mistake investors make is taking their profits too soon, and their losses too long.

We don't think long term it meets our target for investment returns.

John Marshall

We think investors looking to position for longer-term upside will find July options attractive.

Theo Epstein

We think investing in Coco was a wise move.

When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.

Karl Pearson

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

Paul Samuelson

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Paul Samuelson

Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market is reasonably efficient. That makes it possible for the rest of us to do the sensible thing, which is to index. Want to join me in this parasitic behavior? To build a well-diversified portfolio, you might stash 70 percent of your stock portfolio into a Wilshire 5000-index fund and the remaining 30 percent in an international-index fund.

Paul Samuelson

The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to be able to deliver the goods of superior portfolio-selection performance. Any jury that reviews the evidence, and there is a great deal of relevant evidence, must at least come out with the Scottish verdict: Superior investment performance is unproved.

Paul Samuelson

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Paul Samuelson

Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.

Mitt Romney

I did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.

He really did things differently, ... And it worked well for investors and the company.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Marc Benioff

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Jeremy Siegel

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

Douglas Leone

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

Clearly, if we take a stock out at $2, and 6 months later it's trading at $10, we look silly and people who invest in the index will say, 'I missed a five-times gain'. But in talking to people who run index funds, the vast majority of managers say take the low-priced stocks out,

Investors need to think first, and not put money randomly into oil stocks,

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Brian Reynolds

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'

Investors are now realizing that their (worst fears) were overblown.

Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back.

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

Investors are just taking shelter in those natural resources issues.

Bill Gross

Investment markets in the United States will not ultimately prosper under such an increasingly odorous environment.

Investment has been very strong and consumption remains very strong.

Invest in quality. I wouldn't be putting 30 percent of my portfolio in tech at this time.

Will Rogers

Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up.