#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

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#back #cars #family #give #horrible

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#billionaires #building #children #class #create

So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#back #balanced #believed #country #create

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

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

— Paul Getty

#consists #goods #investments #majority #overwhelming

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#call #countries #debt #entire #euro

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#approval #budget #development #education #following

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#clean #conservation #country #domestic #encouraging