#investment

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. ↗

— Vince Cable

#been #binge #britain #consumer #driven

We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another. ↗

— Vince Cable

#amount #another #automobile #britain #country

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that. ↗

— Vince Cable

#asian #asian countries #attract #back #because

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#general #going #good #i #i think

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#buy #head #heart #home #investment

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#away #dubious #far #far away #gotten

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#basic #because #billion #dollars #expect

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#company #data #gains #incremental #international

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed. ↗

— John Engler

#bill #completion #day #delay #every

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#course #difficult #economy #general #goals