Quotes of: Capital-investment Keyword

Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just t...

Bjork

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Alfred Lin

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Amanda Lindhout

The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.

Adolf Loos

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced.

Arundhati Roy

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

Equipping Church, The

I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich.

Fulfill Your Threats

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need t...

Matthew Lillard

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

James McAvoy

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.

Robert Reich

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

Tamara Mellon

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

Invisible Monsters

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?

Jesus Saves, Satan Invests

It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

The Restful Mind

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

I take my investment advice from my dentist, because he’s just as likely to lose me money as a financial advisor.

This Book Title is Invisible

It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance!

Project Management: A Professional Approach to Events

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

The Picture of Dorian Gray