As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.
Antony Garrett Lisi
ScienceResearchYouInvestmentTry
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
BookWeirdYouInvestmentPitching
If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
Arthur Scargill
MoneyYouLoseInvestmentMatter
The materialisation of reforms in the form of rollout of the GST, the institution of Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and the abolition of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board should boost investor and investment confidence.
Urjit Patel
ConfidencePromotionInvestmentCode
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Suze Orman
MaturityBondYouBackInvestment
We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.
Sallie Krawcheck
WomenEnoughWallInvestmentStreet
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
Peter Diamandis
GovernmentEnergyInvestmentMatter
It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.
Nancy Gibbs
FamilyDailyValueInvestmentYears
We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.
Sharan Burrow
KnowInvestmentBuildInfrastructure
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher
LoveInvestmentDealOnlyMerger
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.
Timothy Geithner
GovernmentHelpTransitionInvestment
The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
Gary Locke
GrowthWorldRestInvestmentChina
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
Noel Gallagher
MusicNowInvestmentDaysGoneGuy
It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.
Jim Gray
FaceBadInvestmentDebtUnderstood
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.
Adam Lashinsky
ManagementInvestmentHubrisJokeUp
The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.
Rex Tillerson
HistoryPastInvestmentDifficult
If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.
Jerome Powell
ResultInvestmentPlansWillEconomy
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
Dambisa Moyo
CultureInvestmentMoreLeftAid
In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.
Lionel Shriver
PeopleMindDangerousInvestmentHe
A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.
John Delaney
GrowthHurtTaxInvestmentEconomy
I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt.
Linda McMahon
BusinessPlanYouKnowInvestment
I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.
Mel B
YouKnowInvestmentYearsProperty
Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.
Kenneth Fisher
GoodWaitStrategyInvestmentBuy
If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.
Anil Agarwal
InvestmentResourcesFlourishNatural
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