Quotes About Returns

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

Our investors are here for only one reason: great returns. They want to make money.

What people don't realize is that the initial sales of an album isn't where the bulk of your returns come from. It happens over time, sitting in the catalog, picking up commercials, getting included on packages here and there - there's years and years of pipeline money that goes on. That's where real money comes from - building that body of work.

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Venture-capital firms invest in trends by projecting returns. But most projections are pretty much bogus, and research shows that experts are no better at predicting the future than dart-throwing monkeys.

Here's why: Past performance is not a good predictor of future returns. What does predict investment performance are the fees charged by the investment manager. The higher the fees you pay for investment advice, the lower your investment return. As our friend Jack Bogle likes to say: In the investment business, "You get what you don't pay for.

Invariably, the hottest stocks or funds in one period are the worst performers in the next.

Average Annual Returns of Actively Managed Mutual Funds Compared with S&P 500 20 years, Ending June 30, 2012 Sources: Lipper, Wilshire, and The Vanguard Group. S&P 500 Index Fund 8.34% Average Active Equity Mutual Funda 7.00% Shortfall +1.34%

It is the nature of an average that some investors will beat it.

How about these birthday congratulations, these many, many happy returns of the day, when ev'rybody but you knows there won't be any!

The pressure for shareholder returns is, however, just one manifestation of how financial gain drives growth. Indeed this expectation of gain is so ingrained that we hardly notice its most unusual feature: it runs counter to the fundamental dynamic of our world.

The rise of shareholder capitalism entrenched the culture of shareholder primacy, with the belief that a company's primary obligation is to maximise returns for those who own its shares.

From 1981 to 1991, the average return on ten-year Treasury bills was 10.4 per cent; the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 12.9 per cent; and the average return on so-called junk bonds was 14.1 per cent.

You initiate conflict to seek and obtain attention; kindness and love will deliver more significant returns than one can hold.

Prepare or Have an Advisor Prepare Separate Tax Returns.

It is irrational to be politically well-informed because the low returns from data simply do not justify their cost in time and other resources.

I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

Anyone will tell you if you want to run a business, you need to monitor costs and revenues. In the same manner, if you want to run your body, you need to monitor intake and returns. It's in your best interest.

Mr. Trump's position has been clear from the beginning: He's under audit. When the audit is completed, he'll release his returns.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

In the financial world, risk translates to uncertainty. It's measured by "standard deviation from the norm" -- in other words, it's measured by how much the returns swing up and down. Says King, "Most individuals measure risk as their chance of loss, but we measure risk by the variability of returns.

If I'm going to take the time to meet with somebody, I'm going to try to make that person successful. But David kept score. He saw every social encounter in terms of diminishing returns. For him, there was only so much goodwill available in a relationship and only so much collateral and equity to burn. What he didn't understand was that it's the exercising of equity that builds equity. That's the big "aha" that David never seemed to have learned.

There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We