What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
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.
Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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.
Solyndra is a great investment in our future
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
I'm just absolutely convinced we have to educate our way to a better economy. That's the only way we're going to get there. This is the best long-term investment we can make. And so I think it's my job to be the truth-teller.
Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.
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.
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.
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.
Dysfunctional states like Afghanistan need business people who are deeply rooted in their country and invest in it. They can add stability. But all development programs of the United States and the European countries unfortunately exclude the private sector, which could make investments based on profitability.
I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. In any event, for countries like Afghanistan the formation of an entrepreneurial class is of vital importance.
