Quotes About Returns

Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time'.

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

Pagan blood returns!

Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

Investing in friendship and love always brings great returns. — Edie Melson —

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

Your instincts might tell you that you'd do better in the second scenario, with steady gains, but you'd be wrong. You can actually make higher returns by investing regularly in a volatile stock market.

Don't lose money!" But for many investors, that means having to settle for mediocre returns in the Security Bucket.

Surprise, the returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by investors.

You'll learn more about this in chapter 4.1 on asset allocation, but for now, just know that if real estate's mantra is "Location! Location! Location!" then the mantra for getting better returns while reducing risk is "Diversification! Diversification! Diversification!" Effective diversification not only reduces your risk but also offers you the opportunity to maximize your returns.

And so what happens over and over again is the profits win and the investor seeking returns loses.

The problem is that the managers of the mutual funds make more money when they gather huge piles of assets and charge high fees. The high fees are in direct conflict with the goal of producing high returns. And so what happens over and over again is the profits win and the investor seeking returns loses. There

For the 20-year period from December 31, 1993, to December 31, 2013, the S&P 500 returned 9.2% annually, but the average mutual fund investor averaged just over 2.5%, barely beating inflation.

And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns.

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