- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investment Quotes
Perspectives on where money goes and why.
These lines come from bankers, property watchers, and venture capitalists talking about where capital moves and why. One speaker distances a firm from the label regional bank, preferring the term merchant banker with a national client base, while another notes how London property has drawn steady interest. For more on financial thinking, see Finance quotes.
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- Four-Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to use credit default swaps to protect not only my investments but the hundreds of jobs that exist because of my investment. I understand the dangers of credit default swaps and the benefits of credit default swaps.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
As ambassador, I am focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Spain.
- Bilateral
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
- Estimates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.
- Million
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- Nov 07, 2020