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The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. David Ricardo
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. Daniel Inouye
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it. DJ Khaled
Because Mr. Mandela’s early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Aberjhani
The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now. Henrik Fisker
When I was younger, I’d get very invested in things. It’s a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you’ve got to love the process of digging. Alan Menken
I’m transitioning from being a starving artist. My producers had success outside of the Daniel Caesar brand, so they invested money, time and resources. They funded the first video, and a lot of other things that I’m so thankful for. Daniel Caesar
We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven’t invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven’t even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. Michael Bennet
Our first use of cash is invested organically, secondly returning values our shareholders – roughly 100 percent free cash flow. And then thirdly, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships that complement our organic strategy. We are going to continue down that path. Dennis Muilenburg
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. Frederic Bastiat
I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It’s been very lucrative for me and I’ve been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed. Owen Hart
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it’s sensory overload. Q-Tip
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it’s about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. Freddy Fender
I’ve been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I’ve invested in others. Brian Kemp
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. Arthur Rock
I didn’t care how much work it would take, and I didn’t see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion. Misty Copeland
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It’s strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed. Sienna Miller
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. James Baldwin
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning. Roman Jakobson
You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters… and that’s why the characters need to be real. Jordana Brewster
I had so much growing up and I’m so thankful for all the people who invested in my life. Michael Chandler
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. David Suzuki
I invested in many companies, and I’m happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don’t like capitalism, you don’t like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China. Terry McAuliffe
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Montesquieu
To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to. Alan Stern
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. Sam Houston
I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth. Henry Sy
It’s been cool to watch the fans who’ve kind of always been there for me. That’s just a special feeling every night: to go out and know that there is people that are proud, not just to be at the show but proud to be your fan, and they’re invested in what you’re doing. Luke Combs
I’m just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all. Amandla Stenberg
I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I’m in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job – large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan. Steven Blum
It’s near impossible to always be right when you’re innovating. It’s easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don’t like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility. Jeff Jordan
It’s time that America’s government lived by the same values as America’s families. It’s time we invested in America’s future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That’s what Democrats believe. Harry Reid
For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that’s really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. John Hickenlooper
Hollywood studios bury that stuff – actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars – insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can’t have that person’s name dirtied up. Alec Baldwin
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. Barbra Streisand
Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me. London Breed
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing. Chesley Sullenberger
The reason Red Bull won four championships is not because it’s an historic name in Formula One but because they invested in the right guys and they were all totally focused on one thing. David Coulthard
I’ve always been interested, since graduate school, in why some children wilt and shrink back from challenges and give up in the face of obstacles, while others avidly seek challenges and become even more invested in the face of obstacles. So this has been my primary question for over 40 years. Carol S. Dweck
‘Radio’ was made at a budget of Rs 6 crore. Thankfully, the money invested in making the film was recovered through music. Himesh Reshammiya
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business. Elon Musk
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. Fay Weldon
The effort invested in ‘getting it right’ should be commensurate with the importance of the decision. Daniel Kahneman
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came from my dad, the second from mostly cash flow. The third was an SBA loan. After my dad invested $1.5 million to open a few more, he suggested I raise the money myself for the experience. Steve Ells
So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process. Mitchell Reiss
I got three years invested in Brett Hundley, two years invested in Joe Callahan. The quarterback room is exactly where it needs to be. Mike McCarthy
The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock. Gary Vaynerchuk
I have too much money invested in sweaters. Bob Hope
The NWSL is a great league. It’s so competitive from every single team and every single game. They have the right people and they are invested in it. Tobin Heath
I came at age in the ’60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time – the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. David Talbot
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. Josiah Warren
I love The Miz! I absolutely love him. He’s so snarky and that’s who I want to be. I want to have cool comebacks and get people to listen to me and be invested in me. Even CM Punk – when he spoke, everyone listened. Rhea Ripley
When I finished school, I took my entire life savings – $5,000 – and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. Mark Warner
For a generation, Republicans have tried to unravel the activist government under which Americans have lived since the 1930s, when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a government that regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, and invested in infrastructure. Heather Cox Richardson
I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined. Mitch Albom
Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance. Ol Parker
I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It’s easier when you’re not trying to come up with your next line on the spot. Greta Gerwig
In September 2014, the USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to be invested over a 2-3 year period. John T. Chambers
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in ‘Tinker, Tailor,’ was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I’m such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. John le Carre
I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn’t want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old. Margaret Qualley
You have to get the audience invested even if you’re doing something that they think is dumb, it’s kind of what these movies are all about. Halle Berry
Money is time made tangible – the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner’s time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom. George Will
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal. Albert Wynn
I have invested in the stock market since I was very young. Christie Hefner
And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job. Robert C. Merton
You know he’s invested when he doesn’t treat his ‘friend time’ and ‘girlfriend time’ as mutually exclusive. Matthew Hussey
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development – and with good reason. Geoff Mulgan
I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn’t do anything internationally – it was all in Ireland. Shane Filan
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. Robert Trout
I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd – it’s a kind of a ‘make me laugh’ attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they’re suggesting everything you do. So they’re already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work. Ryan Stiles
I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life. Carol S. Dweck
I’ve always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they’re invested and how specific they are. Nathan Fillion
I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom. Thomas Haden Church
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. David Suzuki
Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s. Sallie Krawcheck
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I feel as though there’s a lot invested in my background in being an outsider. Claire Messud
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. Wangari Maathai
Certain people and groups seem invested in convincing black people that black people are liberal. We’ve traditionally been conservative, church-going people. Jason Whitlock
Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us… They still believe in that vision. Shawn Fanning
It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don’t change and alter the story because of people who’ve invested in it and what to put product in a shot. Michael Berryman
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. Leland Stanford
I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture. Nolan Bushnell
I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don’t realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time. Greta Scacchi
You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters. Jane Goldman
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. Edmund Barton
I invested a lot in my fitness. Per Mertesacker
The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you’re getting invested in the reality of these characters’ lives that, in fact, don’t have an ending. Darren Star
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you’re a writer it’s your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it’s the opposite. Arundhati Roy
In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South’s leaders felt they had to entrench their power in the government or it was only a question of time until lawmakers would begin to regulate, or even outlaw, slavery. Heather Cox Richardson
I’m not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years. Ira Sachs
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. Barney Oliver
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. Barack Obama
As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work. Robert Reich
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we’re invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story. Regina Brett
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. Jeff Bezos
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they’re wrecking their own kids’ lives, there will be a mass change in value. Kim Stanley Robinson
Over the last 20 years, I’ve worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here’s the thing: You don’t start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small. Reid Hoffman
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command. William Falconer
