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Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Readiness is our return on investment.

Michael Williamson

Oregon eliminated property and payroll factors in determining corporate income tax, which rewards new investment in property and equipment.

Caroline Pecquet

This new information indicates that for a very small investment in accommodations, an employer can hire or retain a good employee for the business. This is a win for the employer and the worker.

Roy Grizzard

I don't think the big investment firms knew what they had. They just have this bias for fundamental research.

Jim Huller

He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.

Cameron Johnson

This investment is a win-win. Teachers' salaries are increased, student achievement is improved and the taxpayer gets a good deal.

Glenna Fletcher

We saw consistent upward growth in the amount of investment, the number of investors and the range of things invested in.

Nicholas Parker

The game will be managing the debt and reducing it at a pace that doesn't affect their investment rating.

Ben Holden

Tackle the crime first and create a platform for investment.

Neil Fraser

I want to thank you for your investment in this part of town. It's going to help a lot.

Ben Rangel

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

John Sims

The momentum is there, but it's sporadic. There is no doubt that investment spending continues to move higher.

Gerald Zukowski

We are committed to continuous investment in Thailand in order to build the domestic market and exports.

Anat Julintorn

Just as bridges and roads crumble without adequate investment, so are the Great lakes deteriorating.

Andy Buchsbaum

But the $1 billion (investment) doesn't happen without the stadium piece of it. The stadium is the anchor.

Lester Bagley

We believe Nokia remains a compelling investment.

T. Michael Walkley

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia

Education is the cornerstone of a society, ... The most important investment we can make collectively and individually is in education. It amounts to an investment in the development of the province.

Bernard Lord

Everything we pour into the shuttle is an investment in the past.

Louis Friedman

Very committed to maintaining its facilities in Ohio, but the ultimate decision in this case will be a significant factor in our future investment decisions.

Paul Wolff

Most of the time when these things go public...private-equity firms want to get the hell out of there. They want to monetize their investment and get their guys off the board, because they don't want to be caught in a conflict of interest.

Jay W. Lorsch

A tree is a lengthy investment. If it gets a good start it has a good chance of growing well.

Yvonne Smith

This investment presents an excellent opportunity for us to grow strategically in an important European market.

Dan O'connor

It's exciting to see that with a very minimal investment on the part of TCA this kind of effort come together.

Rick Hernandez

It's probably a good investment that's having a hard time. Think of the market as the culprit.

Pat Jennerjohn

Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses.

John Alexander

If we see uncertainty easing, we expect investment to come back. It would be a boost to the economy.

Irene Cheung

The country's emphasis on skills development and a supportive investment climate is also key to Malaysia's attractiveness as a foreign investment destination.

Jeff Immelt

There was no question that the investment community had some concerns on the potential pitfalls on the restatements.

Lasan Johong

It's a pretty significant investment for us. And we're happy to be able to finish it off this year.

Jim Struzzi

China's production capacity is increasing due to years of sustained high growth in investment.

Wang Jian

So I invested in him as a manager, and it was a good investment.

Suzanne Somers

Deteriorates markedly further from here, and threatens the strong business investment outlook.

Anthony Thompson

Prices have skyrocketed. Five or six years ago, no one even considered comic books a serious investment.

John Petty

There will also be investment in customer support. In the Middle East this year we opened a call centre in Dubai, and will continue to invest here.

Wenceslao Lada

Too many follow a 'me too' policy or purely a cost saving attitude when considering investment in enterprise applications.

Teresa Jones

The investment has become a headache in some sectors.

Liu Zhi

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

Brad Henry

We're coming close to tripling our investment. Standalone, it's a huge investment, and it's growing.

Lee Edwards

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Arlen Specter

It's worth the investment. It demonstrates our commitment to offering the very best to our consumers and our advertising customers.

Bruce Howard

We expect weak household consumption, business investment and inventory run down to result in a negative headline number.

Shamubeel Eaqub

Foreign direct investment is so important to the growth of China's economy that the national government doesn't want to do anything to endanger that.

Clive Jones

To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

Martin Zweig

For the amount of the investment at that point, they did not seem to be taking the best advantage of what they could have been doing.

Linda Fitzgerald

At this time, the best investment the company can make is in itself.

Michael Feuer

If you have bars that fluctuate up and down dramatically, you know that this is not a short-term investment vehicle.

Mercer Bullard

People have to be paid and they're either paid by commission or other investment management fee.

Jim Stone

It's a premium we think is a very good investment.

Mike Armstrong

That's an insane amount of money to be investing in these old and severely challenged reactors. This is a bad investment.

Dave Martin

Against this background firms are cutting back on their investment plans and expect the rate of job losses to increase.

John Cridland

European Capital immediately understood the investment thesis and acted quickly to complete the transaction. We are impressed with their flexibility and hard work.

Royal Bank

Economic policy reforms aimed at encouraging new investment in all sectors of the economy will also be taken up.

Sanjaya Baru

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

James Barnes

This investment is a giant leap forward.

Kris Perry

The lawyers and investment bankers like the BlackBerry because they need fast information at their fingertips all the time.

Diana Hwang

The amount of investment in this really depends on what would be the pain of getting it wrong. More and more legislation is coming worldwide that increases the pain of getting it wrong.

Pete Bramhall

Otherwise the investment which has gone in has been a waste up until now.

Andrew Coates

I have made a very large capital investment. I can guarantee you these will not be run-down shanties.

Jim Kearns

I was extraordinarily explicit. As an investment, this is a lousy one.

Daniel Méndez

There's a little bit more caution coming into the investment outlook mostly because of fears of higher interest rates in the U.S. and Europe and now Japan.

Chris Iggo

The [telecommunications] carriers are going to use every trick, every gimmick, to delay investment.

Serge Tchuruk

The SEC has been pretty strict about monitoring conversations between investment counselors and their clients.

Larry Tabb

At the start of the year, the investment community was very bullish on Asia, ... The currencies' performance is clearly surprising.

Nick Bennenbroek

There is room (for investment in another bank), and we will have to decide going forward what to do in this regard.

William Rhodes

It's a big investment by any means.

Tony Ward

There are a lot of people who see redeveloping the inner-city areas as a good investment.

Paul Lapides

It's not my job to determine what the re-use will be, ... My job is to determine whether this is the right investment for California.

Joe Nation

Investment funds believe that there's more move on the upside.

Ingrid Sternby

We hope investment will slow down because eventually, that growth won't be profitable.

Kent Yau

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

Steve Swasey

We really try to get present students speaking on our behalf. We have had some fantastic return on that investment.

Richard Herman

Both companies are dedicated to advancing to a broader array of investment products. This merger will give them bulk and more marketing channels.

Donald Light

This will lead to Singapore acting as a conduit to foreign investment in India.

Rajiv Sikri

P&G invests heavily in research, development and intellectual property and design, and must protect that investment.

Diane Dietz

The earnings were about a penny or two more than expectation, but because the source was investment banking, it probably doesn't excite the market that much.

James Schmidt

Our Evans branch continues our investment in northern Colorado Front Range communities.

Larry Wood

The initial investment is about $50 million, but this will be added to each month as the plant expands production.

Vyacheslav Bresht

The predictability and stability of an agreement is important in encouraging investment and the stability of the investment regime is at risk. We have asked India to consider this.

Nimal Karunatilake

GMAC bondholders would be delighted to see a transaction of some sort take place and ecstatic if it were investment grade.

Pete Hastings

We've made a significant investment in Jonas and we expect that to continue.

Matthew Szulik

We're looking at $13 billion in capital investment over the next decade.

Daren Beaudo

The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.

Alan Rosling

Everyday spending decisions, especially credit-based ones, will do far more harm to our financial future than any investment decision you will likely ever make.

Paul Richard

We felt it was a good, long-term investment.

Charles Cunniffe

Because the proposed measures go much further than the current practices, especially for the internet data, it is clear that there will be a lot of investment for the industry to make.

Thierry Dieu

The investment makes a lot of sense because some airports are going to become commercial corridors in Mexico.

Rogelio Gallegos

Companies in the print media industry are once again investing heavily. We're seeing an improved investment climate.

Bernhard Schreier

Getting a degree costs about $60,000, depending on the student's lifestyle. It's a big investment, and finding that money can't begin too soon.

Don Heizer

Everyone's trying to put a housing angle on almost any investment trend.

John Caldwell

Our planned investment is the strategic answer to this risk.

Wendelin Wiedeking

It comes down to your net investment return.

Jeanie Wyatt

Space is a high-risk investment. China as a developing country is limited and constrained by its funding for more ambitious programs.

Luo Ge

First and foremost, it's a good investment. But it's also a model that can be used elsewhere.

James Simmons

When it comes to 45 nanometers, going it alone is difficult technologically and financially. Doing it as a group helps reduce investment risks.

Masahiko Ishino

Mainland companies increased investment to expand capacity and improve technologies to catch up with overseas players.

Ali Keita

It's a great investment for the community. They don't make any more historic districts. We have to do the best we can with the one we got. I think we can't help but get some good results out of it.

Tom Keating

They haven't changed (their bias). The weakness in corporate profits is a problem, and investment continues to decline.

Kevin Logan

We have planned a multi-million dollar investment in this market to set up our distribution hub as well as investment in R&D.

Manish Gupta

It was our desire to secure an investment or strategic partnership before we filed, and the environment just did not help us on that front at all.

Kerry Skeen

This is a classic 'chicken and egg' problem that needs some government intervention and up-front investment to achieve a breakthrough.

Jim Watson

There's a lot of investment here, in both equipment and personnel and so you want to have the infrastructure to support that.

Joey Spatafora

When other investment channels are absent, increasing the mortgage limit for house buyers has become the only way to make good use of the capital.

Lin Kai

Falling margins, which is really investment in customers, is very much a part of turning the company around.

Arun Sarin

There's certainly scope for significantly more growth. It's an area where investment banks must be involved.

Peter Mitchell

This is an investment that has a tremendous rate of return for the state.

John Mascher

We believe that TalkNStocks.com will help to increase the awareness of our company to the investment community.

Jim Holmes

This was an economic development investment. We're glad we did it.

Keith Poston

We think public investment there will spur private investment.

Chris Norton

I think it's a good investment.

Mark Birdwhistell

If you're not a saver, I'd be very concerned you may spend that investment account.

Gerard Papetti

It was definitely an investment that was well worth it.

Jeff Shigeno

All the elements required for a rebound of investment are there -- resilient demand and a financial environment with low [interest] rates.

Olivier Eluere

It seems like they've been heavily involved in investment banking work this year, and you see the benefit of that coming through.

Marc Desmidt

This was the largest mid-cycle investment in Nissan's history.

Brad Bradshaw

It's encouraging to see an upgrade in the outlook and business investment will be supportive of economic growth.

Andrew Hanlan

With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy overall is that annual GDP growth will pick up modestly during 2006 to about 3.25 pct.

Ian Macfarlane

Adult basic training and education is one of the cornerstones of our social investment effort, not only for our own people, but also for people in the community.

Con Fauconnier

The economy is shifting from consumption to investment growth. The long commodity boom will also promote spending on construction and engineering that will grow the economy further.

Chris Hart

These companies are going to be haunted by the memory of their own growth. There's going to be pressure from the investment community to find new ways to do that. The bigger you get, the harder it is to grow by 20 percent.

Stephen Simpson

This is our first investment in home control and automation. Its time has come, the market is ready.

Curt Nichols

The commitment of these American investors has never wavered, but now they see that the government has found its direction and is beginning to take important actions to encourage investment here.

Matthew Daley

The fact is we have massively underestimated the impact of investment fund flows into the sector.

Macquarie Research

As a customer I have no concern that IBM is going to back off in investment here or not come out with the next generation of technology.

Chris Foster

The community will benefit from your investment.

Dave Fleming

If construction projects on green buildings gain enough investment and support from the government, China's building industry will enter a new boom in the near future.

Carl Jetter

One could level some accusations at the European investment community for the lack of [Internet stocks].

Nick Gibson

Black is always a good investment ... You will be able to wear the black you buy now with the trends of the future.

Candy Pratts Price

It?s been quite a financial investment.

Sandy Millman

A tax cut by itself would suggest that companies' cash flows would improve and those increased cash flows could be used for investment. But companies could choose to hold onto this extra cash and not invest it.

Arnold Berman

Your house is the biggest, best investment you will make in your lifetime. You should give it a good bath when it gets dirty.

John Muller

Potentially the single biggest private sector investment in cricket.

Clive Lloyd

This is a big investment on his part.

Gary Larsen

I think David is the best in the business, ... He has a great eye for investment talent, and any year that we're close to Yale, we're happy.

Jack Meyer

Despite ballooning JGB issuance, Japanese financial institutions have ample appetite for JGB investment.

Kazuo Mizuno

Europe's acceleration is confirmed and will continue in the second quarter. The extra froth is not just coming from exports. More is coming from investment and consumption.

Janwillem Acket

The two industrial cities will further consolidate Abu Dhabi's stature as a leading international industrial hub and showcase the emirate's investment and business-friendly environment.

Carlos Charlie Borde

Especially with young people, they want an immediate return on their investment.

Nancy Snow

It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.

Zev Yaroslavsky

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

Carol Bellamy

There has been stronger-than-expected demand for our products across the board. There is far better inventory management, better capital investment management.

George Scalise

Our overall sponsorship, advertising and promotional investment in the NFL is significantly better than the competition, and we're disappointed that the NFL chose to go in a different direction.

Tony Ponturo

It's a good investment if most of them choose to stay on.

Charlene Mcgriff

Our investment dollars are focused on this initiative.

Doreen Toben

What Canada needs is a shift in focus away from consumption and towards savings and investment.

Don Drummond

The NFL clearly is making an investment in this because we believe it's the right thing to do.

Roger Goodell

We've heard it from a host of our clients, both from the broker-dealer and investment-management perspective.

Barry Barbash

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Mike Winer

That's a steep growth curve that's hidden, ... I think it's a great long-term investment.

Jay Harris

This is where you can get a large boost in network performance for a modest investment.

Joshua Feinberg

The idea is to hurt India's capacity for growth and development, its capacity to attract foreign investment.

Ajai Sahni

I don't believe for one minute that anybody got a contract, got an investment, got a policy decision made because they played golf with the governor.

Brian Hicks

You have to protect that investment.

Ron Dent

Given the absence of investment banking relationships, these analysts can be less delicate.

Frank Barkocy

Investment banks are beginning to say that unless I get a reasonable fee, I'm not interested in small deals.

Vittorio Pignatti

Most analysts with a high price are with the bigger U.S. investment houses. Low prices come from Canadian analysts who have covered us longer.

John Currie

They're all long-term investment programs.

Tom Mann

[The advertisement is] a statement of our intent, that we are a committed and powerful brand, ... It's also a statement to the investment community that we will continue to develop and market innovative products.

David Patton

If they're going to go toe to toe with Citigroup, they're going need to have more powerhouse entry in the investment banking area, ... This is not the end of Chase's acquisitions in the investment banking field.

Marshall Front

If we can't get private investment, then I want to go to the City Council and ask them to buy it as a pilot program for the city.

Frank Melton

Europe has done well, so they are all in Europe. We believe our shareholders pay us to make investment decisions. They don't pay us to look like the index.

David Herro

We are an excellent investment for any student, particularly for any California student who is coming here.

Richard Black

Highlands far and away leaped the pack. The investment we made is paying dividends.

Jeff Hanle

The Knight Foundation is very anxious for this partnership to proceed, but we're concerned about our investment.

Linda Fitzgerald

That will keep the investment transactions flowing, but not at the flood stage.

Robert Bach

Downtown is seeing levels of private investment never before imagined.

Jim Ronecker

The noise will pass. And the new health center is a worthwhile investment.

Curtis Smith

It seemed to indicate the investment community was beginning to understand how Enron made money.

Kevin Hannon

We really didn't buy it thinking we'd have this enormous investment.

Dennis Ritchie

It's just an up-and-coming area. It's a great investment. When they come to sale, we will definitely try and buy them.

Bill Mccloskey

In India, we are working on some investment banking transactions with an offshore component to them.

Paul Calello

A key thing investors wanted to see was strength in corporate and investment banking, and we got that.

Steve Roukis

We're making a long-term investment here.

Bryan Sanderson

Something has got to be done to improve the return on our investment.

Bill Holbrook

There is no doubt that if Iraq torches oil wells there will be a huge amount of business for these companies. But this is a very speculative investment.

Dan Pickering

As a condition of the original investment. We have to follow state laws.

James D. Watson

Investment in China is actually accelerating.

Chen Xingdong

We can't afford not to make this investment.

Debra Mayer

We think we have something really special here, and I think this investment confirms that belief.

Melanie Deitch

We have direct ties to the airport. Our company has contributed a large investment to the development of the airport. And we don?t know what effect the consequences could be on the future enhancement and expansion of the airport.

John Shaffer

Our clients at Christian Brothers Investment Services don't want to profit from certain things and we want to see things change in corporate America.

Julie Tanner

I think to grow rapidly is absolutely fundamental, you need capital, you need investment. To grow off your own profits is a much slower build, and I think also as a designer you need a business back-up, the business acumen.

Amanda Wakeley

We don't think that we need to make that investment. We don't think that you need to own everything to provide these services.

Marty Kaplan

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

Ben Diokno

The best investment we can make for our future is investing in our current and future workers.

Roberta Gassman

The expected increase in network investment is in response to higher demand for cell phone usage.

Vikrom Sriprataks

This investment is a strong vote of confidence in [our] ability to apply our years of expertise in understanding consumer behavior across the Internet to a new generation of applications.

Scott Vandevelde

Everyone should get a home inspection; it really makes sense. The cost relative to the investment is so minimum.

Andy Allen

We are excited to make an investment in AOL's future. It gives us more opportunities with more advertisers, and more kinds of advertising programs.

Marissa Mayer

A flight to quality remains the front mission of the Street's investment banking community.

Jeffrey R. Hirschkorn

I see they've made some improvements, but they're bringing investment to others, not to us. We can't afford $300,000 houses.

William Davis

If you buy smart, it can be a great investment.

Howard Rosenkrantz

There's a growing realization that technology is where earnings growth is going to show up. Investment spending drives earnings, and it's going to technology.

Kevin Caron

We expect growth in fixed investment to slow from 27 percent last year to 15 percent in 2004 and around 10 percent in 2005.

Qu Hongbin

Investment banking is relatively easy to forecast, but the trading side is a tough one.

Brad Hintz

He needs the companies. He needs to be able to attract foreign investment in the gas industry and oil.

Peter Deshazo