Investment is putting money into something with the expectation of profit.
I am saying it's new, because it is new to me, I am hearing it said in many films, and TV series, it for sure is trendy word to drop.
My sisters, and brothers are getting older and they talk about financial advisors. The best advice is, “Do not take advice from someone who can make money by giving you bad advice.”
Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant, Peter Thiel are people who talk, and people listen. Words are gold. When people have fans, people that wait for the next sentence, they influence investments.
Greg asked on YouTube live. “How to make enough money from Investments to live?” This is an annoying math problem because the correct question is, “How much investment money earns 40K per year?” And, anyone on earth can easily live on 40K per year.
Humans are social creatures. Yet, the New York Times says there is a Loneliness Epidemic. The goal of social networks is not friendship, it’s only to make money, keep you on your smartphone all day, and collect your private data to sell to corporations.
Helping a company solve problems using money. A venture capitalist (VC) is a private equity investor that provides MONEY capital to companies with high growth potential in exchange for an equity stake. This could be funding startup ventures.
Investment is putting money into something with the expectation of profit.
How to annoy, without annoying? We all are VC’s - Venture Capitals, we all are “Angel Investors,” we have the right to push our investments goal, the small investor cares about their money, the same a big ones.
Hubris in humans being too lazy to look up the world, not believing they need to understand. Fools believe their wives will never leave them, they will never be fired, and they will never run out of money.
There is 1.5-3 billion people who are starting to use cell phones, they need electricity, this is a need that is growing much faster than solar supply.
The 2012 top 25 countries to invest in worldwide: a list of the top 25 countries that showed real growth in 2011.
My girlfriend insinuated I was greedy, thinking about money. My friends Jeff, Mark both sort of gave me lectures about how to invest sort of made me laugh. As an entrepreneur, self-employed person for over 45 years. I live from my wit, I made good decisions, or I had no money.
When I was at Indiana University, I recognized that students wanted bunk beds in their dorm rooms. I started a business of renting bunkbeds to dorm students, then sold it. I remember the attorney asking a question at the closing.
Investing abroad is high-stakes gambling, between the corruption, the failure of the law to enforce contracts, people need to sign off they are ready to lose all their money.
- Andy Graham - Lived outside of USA for 14 Years and has purchased over 60 pieces of Real Estate in his life.
Investment Defined: Investment is putting money into something with the expectation of profit. More specifically, investment is the commitment of money or capital to the purchase of financial instruments or other assets so as to gain profitable returns in the form of interest, dividends, or appreciation of the value of the instrument (capital gains). It is related to saving or deferring consumption. Investment is involved in many areas of the economy, such as business management and finance whether for households, firms, or governments. An investment involves the choice by an individual or an organization, such as a pension fund, after some analysis or thought, to place or lend money in a vehicle, instrument or asset, such as property, commodity, stock, bond, financial derivatives (e.g. futures or options), or the foreign asset denominated in foreign currency, that has certain level of risk and provides the possibility of generating returns over a period of time.
Investment comes with the risk of the loss of the principal sum. The investment that has not been thoroughly analyzed can be highly risky with respect to the investment owner because the possibility of losing money is not within the owner's control. The difference between speculation and investment can be subtle. It depends on the investment owner's mind whether the purpose is for lending the resource to someone else for economic purpose or not.
In the case of investment, rather than store the good produced or its money equivalent, the investor chooses to use that good either to create a durable consumer or producer good, or to lend the original saved good to another in exchange for either interest or a share of the profits. In the first case, the individual creates durable consumer goods, hoping the services from the good will make his life better. In the second, the individual becomes an entrepreneur using the resource to produce goods and services for others in the hope of a profitable sale. The third case describes a lender, and the fourth describes an investor in a share of the business. In each case, the consumer obtains a durable asset or investment, and accounts for that asset by recording an equivalent liability. As time passes, and both prices and interest rates change, the value of the asset and liability also change.
An asset is usually purchased, or equivalently a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it. The word originates in the Latin "vestis", meaning garment, and refers to the act of putting things (money or other claims to resources) into others' pockets. The basic meaning of the term being an asset held to have some recurring or capital gains. It is an asset that is expected to give returns without any work on the asset per se. The term "investment" is used differently in economics and in finance. Economists refer to a real investment (such as a machine or a house), while financial economists refer to a financial asset, such as money that is put into a bank or the market, which may then be used to buy a real asset.
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