Investment Quotes - Page 9

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

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

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

God gave you a gift and he deserves a return on his investment.

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.

To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

I would always advise young people to follow their star - not my star. They have to live their own life. If they decide they want to go into the investment business, do it, but make it a better business than it is today.

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

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.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

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.

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.

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.

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.