“I wish I could run this company myself’ — to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.”

The secret now is to be disciplined.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way.

It’s so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Every venture capitalist says at some point.

I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

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.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.