Definition of Investment

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Investment

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.

The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.

The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.

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Investment Quotations

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Joe Biden

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
Angelina Jolie

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
Orison Swett Marden

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Keanu Reeves

Investment Translations

investment in French is investissement
investment in German is Investition, Investition, Kapitalanlage
investment in Norwegian is investering
investment in Swedish is investering

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