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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett

Romantic, Someone, Name

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett

Understand, Wide, Required

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul Ryan

Free, Ideas, Labor

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.
Marco Rubio

Government, Debt, Half

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
Simon Mainwaring

Society, Through, Social

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
Simon Mainwaring

Respect, Today, May

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.
Marc Andreessen

Through, Remember, Again

Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.
Thomas Frank

Together, Put, Group

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim

Rich, Personal, Investment

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
Eliot Spitzer

Company, Leaders, Imagine

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein

Rich, Poor, Africa

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
Mohamed El-Erian

Integrity, Whole, Rules

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
James Dyson

Encourage, Invest

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
Vince Cable

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.
Eric Alterman

Wonderful, Next, Company

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
Mitch Daniels

Peace, Strength, Friends

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
Mitch Daniels

Peace, Strength, Friends

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.
Mark Zandi

Giving, Small, Wait

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.
Mark Zandi

Money, Bad, Nation

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.
Ron Chernow

Small, Industry, Mutual

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.
Pauline Hanson

Before, After, Countries

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
Paul Wolfowitz

Why, Try, Mistake

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Christie Hefner

Leadership, Big, Means

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.
Eric Ries

Business, Yourself, Find

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.
Paul Hawken

Process, Financial, Return

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
Sean Parker

Work, Best, Talent

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.
Evan Bayh

America, American, Able

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Yuri Milner

Life, Age, Making

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
Yuri Milner

Try, Interests, Servant

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
Yuri Milner

Social, Public, Behind

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