The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

The future is purchased by the present.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

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

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use – a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.