Richard Edelman Quotes

I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

People will invest in you only if they see some kind of return, and that's the dark truth.

When you get world-class investment, you get world-class results.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

I know it may come off cheesy, but if somebody's going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more into you, you want to make sure you can return that; you want to make sure they feel good about their investment.

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

I'm not someone who puts their money in a fund that earns 2 to 5 percent a year. I'm a man who tries to change things, move something with my money, to create jobs and, of course, at the same time earn more money with it.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

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.

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

What concerns you and me is simply who is putting the money in, who is getting it out, and what good it does

The United States is spending $6 billion a year and deserves to get a lot more than it is getting.

What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.