Top 95 Investor Quotes

As an economist, the only advice I can give the Modi government is to take some steps that will raise the morale of the consumer and investor. That means income tax abolition and reducing the annual interest rate to nine per cent.

We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed.

The average investor’s return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I’m probably a bad example of an investor.

Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

We have an economy that’s really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

This is unproven technology, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t interact with tokens – from an investor and security perspective.

What most entrepreneurs don’t understand is that it isn’t the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor’s perspective by training and background.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, ‘I wish I could run this company myself’ – to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world’s second richest man, Warren Buffett.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there’s an element of gambling to that.

We are each other’s seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

I’m primarily just an investor.

I wasn’t put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn’t my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.

I’m an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.

One can’t be a successful investor without a healthy dose of confidence. To commit your own and others’ hard-earned capital requires conviction, and conviction requires confidence. But as with fine brandy or coffee ice cream, too much of a good thing can be problematic.

My obligation is to disclose companies in which I’m an officer, a director, or an investor.

You need to keep having data points of progress, so even if an investor – and we’ve all had investors say no to us – there are times where you go back, and you keep them in the loop, and you keep telling them the progress and the perseverance you have.

I myself am a private equity investor.

The risk of policy contagion could be magnified if a new funding arrangement were agreed between Argentina and the IMF before a comprehensive policy framework is developed that addresses fundamental investor concerns.

When you’re facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it’s you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

If you’re looking for investment you’ve got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they’re getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are – whether that’s through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

If you’re an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting ‘paid by the company,’ then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.

An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That’s roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.

I really don’t want the highlight of my life to be my success as an investor. Genuinely. My idea of death would be that person who is still telling you about that goal he scored in 1974.

As an investor, what we’re not looking for is ‘oh this is a cool app,’ it’s ‘is this something that can become a big business?’ You need to find those that can become real businesses.

As an investor, I’m always scouting for new trends.

Uber, and Airbnb to a different extent, implemented the same battle plan. Bezos is an investor in both companies and, to some degree, has relationships with both CEOs. It is not a surprise that they are heirs to Amazon.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You’ve dreamed of the ‘right’ ones, you’ve projected ‘real’ ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you’ve imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you’ve set.

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

It’s not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor – yet in most companies, it takes only one ‘nyet’ to kill a project stone dead.

At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.

Often, investors will discover a manager after he’s had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.

The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.

For male and female entrepreneurs alike, having a woman investor can bring credibility when discussing product positioning and expansion opportunities.

The investor knows quite well that we don’t have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out – from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.

If you are a small investor, do take the basic precaution of going to a registered broker/sub-broker and getting receipts for your transactions. Or simply shrug you losses away as you would if you lost your shirt at a casino.

When you’re an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there’s a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Every investor around the world wants to invest in U.S. markets because they’re regulated and they’re licensed. They’re trustworthy; they have confidence. If you take that away, the global economy will take a hit like nothing else. We want to create that for Bitcoin.

I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for ‘special entities’ such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops. It gives me time to think like an investor and come back in September for some heavy planning.

Diverse perspectives lead to a better outcome. There’s so much data, when you look at the math, in terms of the investor returns and the shareholder value that gets created from more diverse boards.

I had an investor who said to me he’d keep his money with me as long as I didn’t have a girlfriend and I didn’t start combing my hair.