"Solyndra is a great investment in our future"
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"The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments."
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"I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic."
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"Knowledge of the investment is most profitable"
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"Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme."
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"Capitalism is the best way of organizing economic activity for a lot of reasons. It unlocks a higher fraction of human potential, it balances supply and demand, it's more consistent with higher levels of freedom. But the way we're pursuing it now, focuses on such short-term horizons, that a lot of businesses and investors are tempted to look at investments in terms of what's gonna happen in the next 90 days, what's gonna happen in one year. But the old phrase, "Good things take time," is true of successful businesses as well."
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"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."
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"We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence."
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"There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community."
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"I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers."
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"With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock"
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"So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them."
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"We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities."
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"We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets."
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"It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate."
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"Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests."
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"I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership."
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"Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades."
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"If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes."
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"My investments have been hurt."
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