Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price that has been paid to buy the loyalty of the local elite through an enormous tribute of multibillion[-ruble] investments, all this cannot be an arrangement for good.
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.
The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
My investments have been hurt.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.
Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.
Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.
I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense. . . but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.
The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.
The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.