Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investment dog.

Robert Mason

At least the house appreciates. In every decade it has turned out to be an excellent investment.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It is difficult to have high profitability in an industry where the investment is so big.

Gao Feng

We're seeing both real estate and hedge fund become more uncertain now, and if it's going to happen, we'll see the investment demand for gold.

Charles De Vaulx

Bidders that have access to capital and the capability to ensure that their cost of capital is highly competitive will be the ones that will be able to justify multibillion-dollar investment in Singapore.

Jonathan Galaviz

If you go back and teach high school biology, we should forgive your loans. That's a smart investment.

John Castellani

A good story has things that draw you in, like great management and great fundamentals, ... A good investment has many of the same characteristics.

Frank Gannon

I would advise the government to control the abrupt increase in dollar price to help sustain our investment.

Fazlul Haque

Though clouds have been forming on the horizon, we remain bullish on the retail investment market.

Reza Etedali

M&A is not going to be enough to carry the day for investment bankers as far as earnings go.

Diana Yates

The pipeline continues on record levels for the corporate and investment bank.

Sallie Krawcheck

We are expanding our investment in growing the community of developers and users of DB2. With DB2 Express-C, developers now have the industry's first no-cost, fully functional relational data server to use for developing and deploying applications.

Bob Picciano

The sale of conservation easements will give them a return on their investment.

George Phillips

We have the ability, without a lot of investment, to get new classroom space and housing.

Mark Weiss

I hope this investment dismisses the idea that ITV is abandoning its heritage.

Nigel Pickard

As a consumer electronics maker, we already enjoy great benefits from the Board of Investment, which has helped us reduce the import duties we pay on raw materials and parts.

Daizo Ito

The deal pipeline continues to be satisfactory overall, including investment banking and equity capital markets.

Allan Moss

I think New Orleans is a good example - there's going to be more investment to protect that area now. That's the same with the funding of infrastructure.

Lee Wooten

The policy of continuing to attract foreign investment will not change.

Hu Jingyan

We're not expecting this to be a moneymaker, ... This is a program investment in the campus, in the quality of the amenities.

Richard Herman

It certainly is a possibility. It's a great investment, but that's all it is right now.

Dana Mcclintock

This is a growth-oriented investment.

Jeff Mcelfresh

The objective is to slow down investment growth and loan growth.

Ma Jun

The truth is that investment in Iran is going well and we are not concerned.

Kazem Vaziri

It could broaden their investment channels as they could engage in business that is currently unavailable in domestic market such as trading of financial derivatives.

Chen Xiaodi

To bring in foreign investment is one of the most important steps we plan to take this year.

Liu Weizhi

We like to have an investment grade ... now one of our objectives is to grow income and pay down debt.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are in the midst of the greatest investment boom Fiji has ever seen.

Laisenia Qarase

Detailed investment plans will be decided at a later date.

Makoto Yasuda

Overall the recovery in business investment has proved disappointing, despite companies being cash rich.

John Butler

Customers can expand from there, but they can justify their investment with this.

Jacob Christfort

This investment in innovation demonstrates that Canada is a global leader in its commitment to the development of new technologies.

Jim Roche

Oil has become a safe harbor for a lot of investment money.

Tom Kloza

There will be an influx of funds as global investment communities and carriers look toward increasing their shareholder value by investing in India's growth.

Kobita Desai

Earnings weigh a lot on investment judgment. Any companies with disappointing results are sold off immediately.

Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi

Certainly, having a dividend exposes you to certain sectors of the investment market that without it you are not exposed to.

Lynn Marmer

Internet stocks are going to continue to enjoy a special position in the investment firmament because these companies are growing much faster than anything else.

Jonathan Cohen

Attacks are made so that our capacity for development and attracting investment are hurt. The target is economic.

Ajai Sahni

We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and is an excellent investment.

Gopal Ahluwalia

They tripled their investment on an indirect basis.

Kent Thomson

Investment mania has been evident in the ferroalloy, coke, calcium carbide, automobile and copper smelting sectors.

Liu Zhi

This is a 50-year investment.

Mayor Richard Mavis

The way international investors look at Brazil is changing. Brazil is consolidating its position as an interesting investment alternative in the equity market as well as in the bond market.

Jose Olympio Pereira

It?s always good to have people willing to come forward and make an investment in the community.

John Doughty

I look at my forecast and, frankly, I was off by $180 million on their investment-banking side. M&A did extremely well.

Brad Hintz

It is a relatively good investment.

Jürgen Pieper

So the carriers are uncertain about their future, which is holding back investment.

Carl henric Svanberg

There is so little appreciation of the amount of foreign investment in the U.S..

Dan Ikenson

Don't get overextended. Keep an eye on your investment and what you owe over the next 30 to 60 days.

Jeremy Gorman

Don't assume the investment is tax-free. It's a relatively new product.

Barbara Raasch

Phil said he was happier than he's ever been about his soccer investment.

Tim Leiweke

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

James Roosevelt

Without proper training, some of the capital investment in health IT may diminish any capital investment. Because the workers didn't get training, they can compromise the system.

Jimmy Lewis

The dramatic business tax relief proposed would place Canada in the upper echelons for investment and development among industrialized countries.

Niels Veldhuis

Carbon capture and carbon sequestration are two issues we must understand completely before we can expect U.S. industry to put down billions of dollars in investment.

Daniel Cicero

So far we haven't come across a compelling investment proposition in any Singapore-listed China stock.

Nicholas Yeo

It's important that government streamlines regulations to ensure that these expectations for investment continue.

Denise Ironfield

This also will facilitate new investment in broadband networks.

Allan Fels

This is a cut of unprecedented size. We'll try to work with the governor and Legislature, asking them to consider higher education as an investment.

Donald Farish

They really have built a very impressive investment-banking capability. They won't always be No.1, but they clearly have been effective in merging their investment and commercial banks.

Guy Moszkowski

Investment in exploration is almost non-existent. Meanwhile, all the discovered deposits will be depleted in time.

Jeffrey Mulyono

It won't be good for foreign investment not now. The political uncertainty is too great.

Benjamin Diokno

IRAs give you more control and they give you more investment options than a 401(k).

Kacy Gott

I was pregnant at the time. We thought it would be a good investment for our daughter's college.

Maria Sanchez

In the most basic sense, development aid is anything that is an investment in the future.

Gerald Bourke

A U.S. firm with debt capabilities but not much equity, or a foreign firm without much U.S. investment banking business.

Thomas Weisel

The business for investment banks has been performing very well on most sides, and I want to hear what they to say on future profit.

Juergen Lukasser

It's a conservative investment, despite the flamboyant nature of the business, ... Pro-wrestling isn't going anywhere.

Robert Routh

The issue in the oil business today is not the reserves but the money, the investment decisions, the investment climate.

Fatih Birol

We decided to make some investment in voter contact early on that will pay off through the campaign.

Albert Martinez

It's a marketing investment - they are trying to gain a wider exposure for their brand and their company.

Jeff Sobul

Now is the time to invest overseas. I have not felt this strongly about any investment opportunity since the early 1980s.

Robert Goodman

Prices this high and lasting this long will almost certainly spur investment.

Paul Polzin

We are going to do what we can to stop that legally. If you do leave, we are going to have to protect our investment.

Mary Mccarty

She didn't buy it as in investment. She just really loved his music and is starting her collection.

Doug Norwine

In some areas, investment is growing too quickly. Investment growth is still at a high level.

Ma Kai

If you leave the investment aside, ... it will be a huge disappointment if we don't win anything. If you include the investment, however, it will be a failure if we don't win something. That's the way the manager will see it and the way we see it, because we're expected to win things; that's what we do.

Peter Kenyon

Investors' heightened attention will make it easy for the proposed fund to attract investment.

Cui Lin

I think it?s a great investment.

Gary Baxter

It's not about rocks or about reserves, it's about investment policy.

Fatih Birol

I figured this would be a good long-term investment, And the tenants can't complain if it's the landlord.

Garrick Ohlsson

Public education is an investment in our future.

Matt Blunt

The donors the governor needs are in the business community. For them, the re-election announcement is an investment and a guarantee — an insurance of some sort that he is going to stay around and work for them.

Bill Whalen

South Boston is very dynamic. When we bought this property, we were banking on all this planned investment in the area.

Jon Davis

I think the Moraine plant is probably going to continue, and get considerable investment.

David Cole

We're already having concerns by major employers that their workforce is disappearing. The faster we can get investment back in there and recreate an economy, the sooner this will all come back.

Bill Crawford

If someone is telling you the investment opportunity is going to go away, let it go.

Bob Webster

Investment has been very strong and consumption remains very strong.

Joseph Ramos

There was no effective oversight of the investment manager and no effective control or checks on his actions.

Peter Bresnan

The fundamental change has really been the change in the investment rules in conjunction with the increase in the political stability of Ghana.

Colin Smith

It's an investment, ... Some people do stocks and bonds - we do toys.

Tom Fuller

It makes no difference to me. It wouldn't have any impact on my investment strategy.

Fred Walker

We look at restoration as a capital investment in our house. We're very pragmatic that it is going to add worth to the home.

John Mcpherson

It is simply impossible for us to massively increase the investment in defense capabilities.

Cao Gangchuan

This is very much a medium/long-range investment.

Paul Morris

Investment banking needs a go-getter attitude that Mitsubishi UFJ lacks. Its efforts to build up that business remain half-done.

Naoko Nemoto

Investing in a startup community bank can be a very good investment if you are patient, because the pay off is years away.

John Carusone

If this were to go through, it would absolutely cripple the hospital's plans for investment in new buildings and new technology. We would have to go back and reconsider everything that we're doing right now.

Thomas Hansen

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Bill Dewitt Jr

This could mean 10,000 new jobs. It can create confidence and investment in rural areas.

Peter Eriksson

An important piece to the success of the ones that have been done is because it includes community investment.

Kathryn Reith

If you're buying a complete vacation for $2,000 or $3,000 dollars, it's an investment you want to protect.

Pauline Frommer

People are cautious about buying the dollar at the moment. The U.S. needs a lot of investment to fund the deficit and the bigger it gets the harder that task becomes.

Armin Mekelburg

We see a fundamental shift away from IT investment in the U.S.,

Pat Gelsinger

Given that the federal government subsidized the return of the commercial seal hunt (between 1996 and 2001) we think this would be a good investment to see its end.

Rebecca Aldworth

I don't know if it's the best place to find investment bankers. But in our profession, you can use these sites to gauge a person's creativity.

Jeff Benjamin

That's a big concern because they do have a lot investment opportunities there. Unfortunately, they could be unfulfilled.

Gene Gillespie

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn.

Amy Domini

We want to be the leading investment bank in the world.

Josef Ackermann

We think it's a good investment to get more from our crews.

Bill Robertson

Boosting investment would require reforms on two fronts.

Wanda Tseng

In this case all that has been achieved is that the state has influenced an investment decision in the directions of stocks and bonds rather than property.

Ian Davidson

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.

John Elkington

It is a question of whether children should have to pay the price for their parents' choices. Children are an investment in our future, and you want to invest in their health and well-being.

Diane Rowland

You're going to always have volatility in investment banking earnings. But retail generally will be more consistent.

Michael Cleary

That's why you have to look at (immigrants) in the greater picture of what they do in the U.S. economy. They set up electronic companies, they set up investment companies, and they also mow the lawn, fix your plumbing and give you a haircut.

Fariborz Ghadar

The results were very good but the issue is really the guidance. There's also a lack of detail about U.S. investment plans.

Scott Mckenzie

In 1993, Marc went to Eastern Europe and set up a company to help emerging democracies learn about free enterprise. He helped those countries get investment dollars from America.

Dick Leggitt

Clearly we are suffering from hyper-growth, over-investment and expansion of the dot-com bubble.

Sam Palmisano

It's a very smart investment. By and large, customers want the ease of access and the ability to do research during the off-hours.

Dean Eberling

We are focused on investment in the service area.

Masao Nakamura

These guys don't come cheap, but it's a bargain. The ROI [return on investment] is off the scale.

Barry Smith

They want to be able to measure the gains and know whether it's a good technology investment.

Bruce Knaach

That is a phenomenal return on your investment dollars, and I expect 2006 to be another strong year with double digit appreciation gains.

Lyndon Holdeman

They're doing a nice dance around the question of private investment.

George Baker

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Katinka Barysch

Our board of directors approved Nomura's investment in us this morning.

Bingo Li

You can be reasonably sure you're getting a decent investment there.

Steve Bates

When so-and-so is closing up shop, it's a reflection of what's happening in the investment world. It's not that the hedge fund world is coming to an end.

Brian Mcquade

Anything that imperils (the Bills') ability to stay here and be fruitful is a big concern. The community's got a big investment in the team mentally and I'd hate to have anything happen to that relationship.

Tom Golisano

It reassures the investment community that private equity is still very interested in investing in the hotel business.

Robert Lafleur

Malaysian plantation companies are constrained and finding it difficult to expand. They are increasingly looking for investment opportunities in Indonesia.

Sami Khan

Investment Management is a key business for Morgan Stanley, one that we are deeply committed to investing in and growing.

John Mack

We expect lots of developers to continue to build things on the Palm OS and we will allow these applications to run on ALP. The message to developers is to continue doing what you're doing, and the investment won't be lost.

Albert Chu

The important move would be to investment grade.

Jonathan Binder

This financial transaction allows us to recoup our investment in the campus and redistribute capital to our shareholders.

David Barnes

These plans can be a really good investment for peace of mind.

Amy Gergely

This new investment, better working practices and infrastructure improvements will make the Ford plant at Dagenham a world-class facility.

Ian Mcallister

We make an investment promoting those products.

Scott Ashley

These numbers illustrate the strength and viability of these companies as investment opportunities.

Chris Walsh

The extent of the rate hike this time is fairly small. What is more important is whether or not more lies ahead. And even if there are further rate hikes, it is investment that will first be impacted, followed by consumption.

Wang Zheng

We thought it was a good investment to help the city.

Dennis Castleman

You get a good taste of the whole economy. You are capturing all the growth areas, whether it is investment in real estate or [capital expenditures] or credit-card growth.

Andrew Holland

It's a function of the lack of investment in infrastructure.

Mark Keenan

The problem is you can't predict where that medal will come from. You have to make that investment.

Simon Clegg

Because they have to do with making sure that investment and jobs continue to happen on the Canadian side of the border.

Ralph Goodale

We are concerned the overheating fixed asset investment has still not yet been effectively controlled.

Grace Ng

It's a concept that requires a bit of an investment of mental energy to understand what it is going to deliver back to you.

Brendan Roberts

That should bode well for the investment banking side. The backdrop remains pretty positive.

Scott Billeadeau

This is a partnership deal, not an investment. We're all equal partners.

Billy Bowman

They've made an investment here in a special way, unique to any other place in the country.

Steve Wagner

You could argue that lifecycle funds are the ideal investment for 401(k) investors throughout your lifecycle, given their broad diversification.

Steve Utkus

A lot of investment internationally is driven by people's understanding of the places that they visit.

Kevin Murphy

It is night and day. Some serious investment in job creation is taking place out there.

Bob Trezise

This resulted from favourable equity market conditions, strong investment performance and healthy net inflows.

Charles Curran

You can't attract capital investment from outside Iraq unless you have a constitution... get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Steve King

It will be a boon to stocks and to capital investment. Increasing the stock market will give business confidence a very big shock.

Jerry Jasinowski

This is testament to the investment the AOC has made in these two disciplines at the Olympic Winter Institute.

Craig Phillips

It says we're a good investment.

David Carruthers

We foresee that this year should be a year of investment and high export growth, therefore we need foreign currencies to finance investment and imports of raw material, as well as capital goods.

Ampon Kittiampon

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Drew Bledsoe

The figures are solid, but what is striking is the rise in investment management.

Roman Cizdyn

We are back to the traditional assets like pooled investment funds, deposits and so on.

Tom Mcphail

An investment in education is an investment in our future.

David Wasinger

That's my investment in my kids. There are plenty of agencies out there that will tell you that I'm out of my mind.

David Canter

There are very small niches in the institutional investment community where there may be some sensitivity to (alcohol) investing, but it is quite the exception.

Marc Cohen

This investment has been wiped out today. It's been wiped out on this Christmas Eve. We have nothing.

Robert Clifford

We have great concern that there will be at least a temporary chilling effect on the flow of voluntary information to the investment community until companies see how this rule is enforced.

Louis Thompson

The United States does not make investment decisions for companies.

Josette Shiner

We don't have nearly the amount of control, from a management perspective, in how to maximize a capital investment as we do in the domestic supply chain.

Beth Enslow

This project is going to be a landmark project, by far the largest private investment in the Bronx.

Randy Levine

This expo will give us bigger trade and investment opportunities, because we've made better preparation.

Anoumone Kittirath

Investment banking fees are geared towards success.

John Williams

The suites are used to affect companies' bottom line. There has to be a return on their investment.

Tom Zupancic

You have to consider where you are financially, where you are compared to other teams, where you are with your current TV package, what your initial investment is and when your payback comes - those are all things to consider.

Pam Gardner

The promise of the next-generation Internet is dependent upon there being investment in next-generation networks. If you're going to expand these networks, how are you going to earn a return on that investment?

Walter Mccormick

If families are important, if people are important, we should be willing to pay what's necessary. We should be willing to make the appropriate investment in our people.

Bernard Rostker

It is a very large investment and certain casino companies just cannot afford it.

Sean Monaghan

It really takes the worry out of your child's college investment.

Bill Nichols

Notes and Domino customers will be able to continue their investment without having to do migrations or rip and replace.

Mike Rhodin

We have doubts, and we would like to be assured that there will be enough investment. With deep respect to Russian companies, they need help.

Andris Piebalgs

The taxpayers can have confidence that they're getting a good return on their investment. We think we've had a lot of success.

Jack Lavin

We should make SA a more attractive investment destination and lowering the company tax burden significantly is long overdue.

Louis Luyt

The public utility sector will be a key area for attracting foreign investment in the coming five years.

Liu Jinping

This highlights a re-accelerating economy led by consumption and investment.

Dong Tao

It's a good investment for the state.

Craig Tucker

If you look at the allocation of investment, there was definitely an improvement, so that's a big positive step.

Yiping Huang

A monopoly is good for shareholders. You get a higher return on your investment than you should have.

Martin Reynolds

They're willing to make the investment in the permanent hires.

Sherri Phillipi

You can't convince a CEO there won't be another war, especially when we've had two in the past two years. It's not a conducive environment for investment.

Rajeev Dhawan

We are pleased that we are able to make such an investment in Germany and thus strengthen the competitiveness of the German pharmaceuticals business.

Jon Baumhauer

This agreement will turn a non-strategic investment into cash that we can use to pay down debt.

C. Michael Armstrong

Gold is on 24-year highs because of a recent shift in investment allocations to commodities by a wide audience.

Robert Gottlieb

It was the best 300-pound investment I ever made.

Jesse Spencer

I had to wait six years to hear about long-term investment. But it was good to hear it.

Carl Guardino

We think it provides a very powerful incentive for business investment.

Charles Rossotti

Their work on behalf of the state of Texas was absolutely appropriate, and a good return on our investment.

Rachael Novier

Right now, there are more opportunities for investment in the UK than in the US, and they're better priced as well.

Doug Richard

Investment itself has evolved, and we try to evolve with it. It's different than it was 20 years ago.

Helen Arntzen

Perhaps the largest area of investment is international-related investment.

Masao Nakamura