If readers disagree, please find me an example of a vibrant company that became that way without investment.
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Now, without investment and the opportunity to change, they are in danger of being allowed to wither and die.
Other countries are doing so, and without investment and ever-improving productivity, firms become less competitive and Britain's economy falls behind.
There are no jobs and no companies without investment, and there will be no major investment boom absent a stronger dollar.
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Such misrule means Zimbabwe will remain isolated, without investment, aid or loans.
In terms of reality in the marketplace today, currency is being perpetuated from currency without investment in labor and materials to produce added value.
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The latter painfully reveals itself in two ways: More available capital means more investment, and there are no jobs and no pay without investment first.
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There are no jobs without investment, and given the billions that Gates and Buffett control, if they were to hoard their wealth rather than give it away, their wealth-creation motive would boost the job market.
To put it plainly, there are no companies and no jobs without investment first, and policies of dollar weakness have made the U.S. a bad place to commit growth capital over the last ten years.
Capital gains taxes are a price placed on investment, and here it should be remembered that there are no companies and no jobs without investment first, so why not a zero rate of taxation on capital gains?
There are no jobs without investment, so the easy answer is to reduce the cost of same through reduced capital gains taxes, and most important, the issuance of a stable dollar the value of which will be a magnet for capital around the world.
In the past large defined contribution plans overseen by unsophisticated employees with other corporate duties, without an investment consultant or investment policy statement to guide them, utilizing well-known mutual fund families exclusively (without competitive bidding), failing to monitor best execution, revenue sharing, securities lending, custody arrangements and other issues, was the norm.
But no society in history has prospered without public investment, infrastructure, law and regulation.
But Mr Mesa knows that Bolivia cannot do without private investment and income from fuel exports.
Some companies achieve low-cost manufactured product positions by selecting the right vendors without any investment at all.
Brazil has become a top investment destination without ratifying a single investment treaty.
The offering was launched without an investment bank underwriting the deal, in what is known as a "best efforts" process.
It said that business optimism could be "short-lived" without the investment.
The growth is not nearly as impressive without internal investment.
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For those without an investment-grade rating, things are even worse.
But at that level of growth and scale without continuing investment in the infrastructure technology and the evolution of the thinking will eventually lead you to hit a very big wall.
And though there are rich seams of coal, and probably oil, under Somaliland's desert, without the investment that only recognition could bring, there is no way of bringing the stuff to the surface.
Without significant investment at the state level, the public risk the worst of all possible worlds: the expectation that there will be a cop-on-the-beat, policing managers and their funds, without there actually being one.
Even without an investment-grade rating, the Philippines had attracted sufficient quantities of foreign investment to set off an appreciation of the peso, to roughly 40 pesos to the U.S. dollar this year from between 43 and 44 pesos to the dollar in 2011.
Multilateralism is not something which China can push on its own without making any investment.
Three months later, without help from investment bankers, Polar took a 70% stake in the venture with Pepsi.
GDP, the government can borrow quite heavily for some time to finance investment without breaching the first rule.
The inability to leverage standards on Hadoop such as SQL requires further investment without reducing the cost of the data warehouse.
Once markets stabilise, Wall Street will start to wonder if it is better or worse off without its standalone investment banks.
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