#vestments

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#aids #carbon #clean #clean water #cuts

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ↗

— Barack Obama

#before #cutting #deficit #education #engine

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. ↗

— John Bruton

#american companies #china #companies #country #indeed

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined. ↗

— John Bruton

#companies #earn #eu #investments #more

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

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ↗

— Donald Trump

#better #better off #experience #few #few things

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ↗

— Donald Trump

#investments #make #ones #sometimes #you

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services. ↗

— Paul Getty

#consists #goods #investments #majority #overwhelming

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#cycle #especially #fluctuations #interested #investments