Investment Growth Quotes

To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.

If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening.

The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.

While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.

The better I get at investing in and helping companies, the result is more founders who are excited to work with me and more of my wonderful limited partners insisting I take piles of their loot to keep it all going.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.

Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

My job is to look after all our investments and ensure that we grow.

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

The main problems are insufficient diversification and the failure to pick age-appropriate strategies - that is, more aggressive when you're younger, and more conservative when you approach retirement. But even then you have to invest for growth.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

India is a fast-growth market and is developing a lot. We continue to increase our partners here and make investments.