90 Capital Gains Quotes
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Famous Capital Gains Quotes
The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains. — Victor Sperandeo
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller
The greatest gains in the market have been made by simultaneous increase of earnings along with increase in P/E. — Thomas Phelps
Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you. — Vijay Kedia
Value and growth, value today, value tomorrow, growth investing, value investing, analysis, current wealth — Howard Marks
[The] greatest investment reward comes to those who by good luck or good sense find the occasional company that over the years can grow in sales and profits far more than industry as a whole. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep. — Naval Ravikant
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
To accumulate any wealth, you must invest at a growth rate higher than inflation. — Naved Abdali
Most profitable investment actions, contrarian, buying when others are selling, selling when others are buying — Howard Marks
Stay with your most successful stock investments as long as they are increasing their earnings. — Thomas Phelps
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — Peter Lynch
Most investors are too eager to sell a good position with a small profit rather than hold on for a larger gain. — Thomas Phelps
The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting. — Charlie Munger
Real estate is more than just appreciation of properties because in real estate, you get the physical asset, you get cash flow, and you get tax breaks. — Jaspreet Singh
Short Capital Gains Quotes
- Skillful investors, risk, stability, dependability of value, relationship between price and value — Howard Marks
- The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation. — Seth Klarman
- Diversified portfolio, significant loss, investment success — Howard Marks
- Winners see the gain; losers see the pain. — Shiv Khera
- Wealth unused might as well not exist. — Aesop
- The goal is creating generational wealth. — 21 Savage
- Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
- The need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. — Philip Arthur Fisher
- Investment success, position, uncomfortable, popular opinion — Howard Marks
- Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets, but of buying assets well. — Howard Marks
Raising Funds Quotes
But a government which raises taxes to fund a monarch’s lavish lifestyle will engender mass resentment among his population, endangering the legitimacy of his rule and making it ever more precarious. — Saifedean Ammous
Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research. — Ann Romney
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. — Mother Teresa
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given. — Mother Theresa
They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps. — Paul Watson
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. — Louise Leakey
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. — Louis Leakey
I only wish I had more time for fund raising. — Nido Qubein
Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. — Sharon Osbourne
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March. — William John Wills
Capital Gains Tax Quotes
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. — Barack Obama
Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate. — John C. Bogle
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. — Joe Biden
We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die. — Liam Fox
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. — Roger Wicker
I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again. — Hillary Clinton
Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes. — Burton Malkiel
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. — Bill Gates
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero. — Herman Cain
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it. — Warren Buffett
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More Capital Gains Quotes
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. — Albert Einstein
All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. — Larry Fink
Aggregating all supply and allowing that supply to compete for audiences is how all platforms gain their power. — Jeff Booth
State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain. — Ian Bremmer
Millions of people are competing for each available dollar of investment gain. Who’ll get it? The person who’s a step ahead. — Howard S. Marks
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars. — Max Weber
Risk is an essential element in the quest for capital gain. Don’t be dismayed by a loss. Recognise it as one of your costs on the way to a net gain. — Thomas Phelps
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool. — Dale Carnegie
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands. — Warren Buffett
For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion". — Erich Fromm
My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties. — Robert Kiyosaki
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection. — Thucydides
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. — Larry Fink
There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing. — Henry Ford
What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics, you just throw all that out the window, limited government and you just embrace the sheer and raw politics of resentment that have been bubbling the whole time and that`s what you get. You get Donald Trump. — Chris Hayes
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it. — Matt Ridley
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson
Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations. — Geoffrey Moore
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain. — Ed Pastor
One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains". — Michael Hudson
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases. — Renata Salecl
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system. — Michael Parenti
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. — Don Delillo
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes. — Michael Bloomberg
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. — John F. Kennedy
The objective of life under capitalism is to capitalize or realize a gain-materially or socially-over your competitors. — Bryant H. McGill
You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains. — Carlos Slim
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain. — Lawrence Joseph
I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there. — Philip Kotler
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction. — Michael Hudson
Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to drive down interest rates. Driving down the interest rates creates a boom in the stock market, and also the real estate market. The resulting capital gains not treated as income. — Michael Hudson
We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. — Warren Buffett
If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital gains? Unless democrats have a clean sweep of Congress, I don't think that's going to happen either. — Gary Shilling
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