Quotes About Returns

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

It is relatively easy to identify those industries where these conditions exist currently (just look at existing returns on capital), and it is for this reason that the really juicy investment returns are to be found in industries which are evolving to this state. The joy from a capital cycle perspective is that most investors are, for a variety of behavioural reasons, taken by surprise. Across many competitive battlefronts, we are always looking out for the next outbreak of peace.

These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of where they come from and how they live. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.

The lesson we learn from Tables 2-2 and 2-3 is that higher volatility of returns leads to lower compounded returns and vice versa. Accordingly, any strategy that lowers the return volatility of the portfolio without lowering the simple average return will increase the compounded return.

Volatility creates lower returns and thus is itself a risk. If you can reduce the volatility in a portfolio, then the compounded return moves higher, closer to the simple average return of the weighted investments in the portfolio. This is how lower portfolio price volatility increases portfolio return over time.

There are no risk-free investments after taxes and inflation.

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

Good investments can be purchased at prices that generate high returns adjusted for inflation.

These investment assets can be businesses, real estate portfolios, and even other investment managers who are capable of compounding money at very high returns consistently after all fees charged. Bad

The relationship between the price you pay and the value you receive is the most important factor in determining your future investment returns.

Bad investments are the exact opposite. They require constant new capital to keep an investment going at ever lower returns, or in the worst case, negative returns - in effect your are burning money. Finding

One stock in the group of 30 stocks disappointed and showed up as a loss, but others had gone up to 100%, 200%, and even up to 500%. Mr.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

It is the conscious Breath that comes from the unnamable space where inspiration originates, and expiration returns—that space without boundaries, which we are sometimes fortunate enough to taste when silence reigns within us.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Seconds passed, then ... La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey. Regin let out a low whistle. The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face .-- --La Dorada swung her head around, peering at Regin with her one eye. Okay. That's freaky. Lookit, Gollum, if you spring me, I'll help you find your precious.

La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey. Regin let out a low whistle. "The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face.

Although some investors may assume that higher inflation leads to lower stock performance, US market history shows that nominal annual stock returns are unrelated to inflation.

High fees only guarantee that more wealth will trickle up from your account to the pockets of your broker or advisor," says Ilijevski. "Fees and costs squander returns."

The most important feature to consider is cost, which has the potential to significantly impact returns over the long term. There is absolutely no reason to pay more than a few basis points to own an index fund.