Investment Planning Quotes

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

I'm a business person at heart.

No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.

The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

I'm a true businessman.