Investors Quotes
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
Yuri Milner
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Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.
Henry Paulson
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My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.
Mitchell Zuckoff
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My office will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the ill-gotten gains of those who engage in this conduct are returned to investors, that wrongdoers are held responsible, and that the appropriate reforms are implemented to halt this egregious activity.
Eliot Spitzer
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Miners produce the bullion. If there is going to be more demand for gold from investors and central banks, where is the gold going to come from? They have to dig it out of the ground and sell it. As the price of gold goes higher, their profit margins increase. So if you are very bullish like I am and think there is going to be a big increase in gold, it's a huge opportunity for miners.
Peter Schiff
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Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'
Eliot Spitzer
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The CEO was personally bought off by being given IPO allocations, ... Small investors were left holding the bag.
Eliot Spitzer
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Barry Ritholtz
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The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
Ben Bernanke
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
Curtis Hanson
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With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed.
Eliot Spitzer
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We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.
Arthur Laurents
