Investors Quotes

Ultimately, the success of America's market economy depends on trust. This includes trust between buyers and sellers, between lenders and borrowers, and between investors and the companies in which they invest.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional owners capitalism where most of the rewards have gone to those who make the investments and assume the risks to a new and deeply flawed system of managers capitalism where the managers of our corporations our investment system, and our mutual funds are simply take too large a share of the returns generated by our corporations and mutual funds leaving the last line investors - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund owners at the bottom of the food chain.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors is not the reason why Chrysler is in jeopardy.

Shaking the confidence in the American economy. This will lead investors to refrain from investing in America or participating in American companies, thus accelerating the fall of the American economy.

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

I have no fear about the future for retail investors.

I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.

Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the 'dear public' — that cry is all nonsense — they are built by men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage on the same

Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Investors don't like uncertainty.