Private Fixed Investment

Famous quotes containing the words private, fixed and/or investment:

    “When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “If they be two, they are two so
    As stiff twin compasses are two;
    Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
    To move, but doth if th’ other do.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)