Bill Gates Quotes

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

Bill Gates

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• I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • State
  • Resources
  • Benefit

• A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Opinion
  • Arguing
  • Trading

• Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Bigs
  • Bigger
  • Trading

• A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Persons
  • Rich
  • Resources

• We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Moments
  • Difficult
  • Tomorrow

• Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.

  

  Gerald M. Loeb
  • Capital
  • Investing
  • Inflation

• Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Investing
  • Bench
  • Cryptography

• It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

  

  William J. Bernstein
  • Running
  • Problem
  • Enough

• When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

  

  Moses Malone
  • Happens
  • Spending
  • Investing

• By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

  

  Elissa Schappell
  • Opportunity
  • Grow
  • Investing

• Our customer is the person whose household income is under $100,000, which is the majority of Americans. We created Acorns from the ground up to serve their best interests. We started with micro-investing, which allows them to invest their spare change. Once they get more engaged they can set recurring investments - $5 a day, $5 a week, for instance - whatever works for them.

  

  Noah Kerner
  • Interests
  • Customer
  • Investing

• One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

  

  Nick D'Aloisio
  • Risk
  • Angel
  • Investing

• There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Mistakes
  • Investing

• One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Real
  • Because
  • Account

• Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Land
  • Property
  • Investing

• I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Career

• When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Worry

• What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Writing

• In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Purpose
  • Confusion
  • Forced

• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim
  • Balance
  • Helping
  • Ambition

• The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

  

  Bill Gates
  • Investing
  • Business world