Over-Investment Quotes

So much comedy comes out of an earnest, deeply rooted need for one thing or another, trying to get it and caring so much that you lose your sense of self-awareness.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

I have too much money invested in sweaters.

There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

There have been scenes and sequences I've done that I watch back now and cringe and think I dealt with that in completely the wrong way. Sometimes I'm too emotional - too invested, in that sense - but you learn, and then you don't do it again.

I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.

I get emotionally involved with things I should not be.