Quotes About Returns

The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions.

The true investor . . . will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies.

Investors need to understand not only the magic of compounding long-term returns, but the tyranny of compounding costs; costs that ultimately overwhelm that magic.

Risk management is not about minimizing risks. It is about ensuring that the risks taken are manageable and that the expected returns are commensurate with the risks being taken.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

For investors, in addition to the standard adage of location, location, location, returns depend on having good timing, deep pockets, and sound financing relationships.

Location undoubtedly helps drive value, but more than that, a supply-constrained area where people want to be helps lock in better returns during the ownership and long-term value.

Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.

Kindness gives you no returns, but it earns you a place in Heaven.

Your time is the most valuable asset you have; invest it where you get the best returns.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

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Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

Love lives on in the hearts of those who make great sacrifices and don't count the returns.

In the remarkable seven months since it had opened for business, the Securities Exchange Company had amassed thirty thousand investors and $9.6 million. All Ponzi had to do to keep them satisfied was to pay them nearly $15 million in return.

You can make a positive impact on society and the environment without sacrificing returns.

Thinking about moats can protect your investment capital in a number of ways. For one thing, it enforces investment discipline, making it less likely that you will overpay for a hot company with a shaky competitive advantage. High returns on capital will always be competed away eventually, and for most companies—and their investors—the regression is fast and painful.

Circumstances and settings are no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then, like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn't shake it off. Nor could I.