The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley’s tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision.
Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It’s just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they’re all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it’s amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.
Connectivity offers a great opportunity for General Motors. When you look at the investment we have made in OnStar and putting 4GLT in and the access you have to not only put data in, and we haven’t really tapped into the data you can use from the vehicle.
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.
You’re a smart person. You’re going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that’s going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.
Even if you don’t care about the environment whatsoever, solar panels are really cool, and are an investment because they save money in the long run.
Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don’t have to leave.
For us, from Korea’s perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don’t pay for the cost of capital.
Take the time to shop for yourself and cook. All of this is an investment in yourself, and if you’re not going to invest time and money in what you put in your body, then what are you going to spend money on? It’s kind of the most important thing.
Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
I can’t think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we’ll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we’ll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.
Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: ‘What is the return on this investment?’
One thing that has made us so successful is that we’ve never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want – not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment.
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn’t have to be a zero sum. It’s not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
The best investment would be a Monika Chiang handbag. Her stuff is so on point. Her pieces are really classic, sophisticated, expensive-looking and they’re just chic.
China’s government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they’re too weak on domestic consumption.
Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you’ll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.
One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.
Trade and investment promotion organizations are crucial partners in ITC’s work to enable SMEs to internationalize. They sustain and multiply the impact of trade-related technical support and allow SMEs to function with confidence in any location.
The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
You can’t fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
The way forward for Africa is investment.
The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
My ideal – and here, the sky is the limit – is to attract foreign investment via concessions.
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn’t do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
Economically Targeted Investing, or ETI, refers to the practice of selecting investments, in part, for their collateral benefits in addition to the investment return for the retirement plan.
I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
I was elected to fight for the people of New Jersey, to win federal investment in our infrastructure, to strengthen our health care, to address gun violence, and get back our SALT deductions.
We don’t see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.
When the students are occupied, they’re not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
It’s important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.
If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don’t lump yourself with capital investment.
But a lot of businesses out there don’t see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it’s still a hard sell for people.
It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.
Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
