investment Quotes

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Taxes are an investment in America.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained... ...

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale,... ...

We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."