As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.
If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.
I used to go salmon fishing with the late Jim Slater, the renowned investor, and he would give me tips. He told me to buy shares in football clubs, so I invested in Manchester United before its shares went through the roof.
Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors’ costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.
Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.
There is a tremendous amount of oil in Iraq and it’s still very, very cheap due to all the political uncertainty. So if you want to be a serious oil investor, I would say get yourself to Iraq in person and look around to find great opportunities.
Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they’ll move that rate up.
If someone who’s passed on your company as an investor offers you to make introductions, that’s kryptonite. Don’t touch that.
Convince the investor that you guys are moving fast and that this isn’t some long slog… you’re thinking about it like a startup where you can move fast and make mistakes.
It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.
As with the Pacific Gateway, Canadians were similarly hoodwinked by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP).
When we do an investment, we always ask, ‘Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?’ That’s a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that’s how you’re taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.
Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.
As a real estate investor, you’re ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn’t have any problems with ordinances.
For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team – from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders – needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
Calling the new company Live Nation Entertainment is a big statement. Let’s make sure we send a strong message from the first investor call.
We’re getting hurt, but I’m a long-term investor.
Revival of investor confidence and industrial development is, in my opinion, one of the biggest achievements of my government, given the financial mess which we have inherited from the erstwhile Akali government.
It may seem premature, but you need to be thinking of your exit from the moment you accept capital, because at that moment, you’ve made an explicit agreement with an investor that he or she will eventually be able to gain liquidity.
I’m such a long-term investor, I’ve never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, ‘I don’t have the conditions with which to work,’ then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions.
The part of capitalism that doesn’t work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you’re going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don’t happen to agree with that.
I’m not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope – I missed both of those – however, I do have a lot of inside information.
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
If you’re a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
Kai-Fu’s Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.
It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
Well in terms of our companies, we are very involved in the innovation space. We are not afraid as an investor, we’re not afraid of dilution, if we, if we think they’re doing it for the right reason.
When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups – but I didn’t know much. I couldn’t tell the good ones from the bad; I didn’t understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.
My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.
Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company’s offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate – this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch.
Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index… It’s literally because of the way our brains are wired.
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