Investment Challenges Quotes

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship - make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.

Student rental is definitely a very profitable form; it is also a very time intensive type of investment. There's a lot of working involved with student rentals.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

That's one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.

It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.

Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.

It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.

A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking for a million and a half dollars to do a small film, there can always be hold-ups, because it's a large amount of money for some people, and it's a small amount of money for other people. In any case, it's significant enough to where you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to happen. Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball. And, of course, the reason agents want you to do bigger projects is that they make a bigger cut.