"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."
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"History doesn't crawl; it leaps."
"If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash."
"He that is overcautious will accomplish little."
"Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive."
"We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here."
"Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty."
"Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble."
"All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed."
"Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality."
"Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending."
"Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems."
"I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data."
"And what I'm interested in is investing in people."
"You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in."
"When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do."
"Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are."
"An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business."
"[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening)."
"Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it."