“To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.”
Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 157.
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Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 4, The Perfect Portfolio, p. 108.
Jot down interesting expressions, forceful adjectives, little turns of phrase, that strike you as effective, as things you might one day be able to use yourself—in both languages.
Public Lecture (2018)

Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter III, Interest and Profits, p. 50 (confer Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Buch II, Chapter XX, p. 474)

“For you must not forget that we can also build.”
Van Paassen interview (1936)
Context: We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.

“Third, we must invest in our youth and in our future.”
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero