Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical."
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Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"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."
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"Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process."
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"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."
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"What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future."
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"The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it."
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"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end."
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"Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world"
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"Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment."
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"Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled."
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"As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow."
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"To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience."
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"Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior."
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"You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again."
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"Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual."
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"I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then."
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"A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business"
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"By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals."
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"As long as you have more cash flowing in than flowing out, your investment is a good investment."
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"Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute."
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"Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process."
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"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."
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