Quotes About Returns

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

America should be about owning a piece of the rock, about letting every worker have equity and share in the returns to capital.

For me, the focus has to be on the individual, the worker, not on profit margins, not on stock returns, but on how do we have a wonderful community in the State of Vermont that has good jobs that keep our kids here and keeps our communities healthy.

Today's investors want to see a positive impact on society and the environment as well as solid financial returns.

Concave functions have slopes that decrease. Concave functions with positive slopes exhibit diminishing returns:

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

As an actor, I can't be constantly worrying about the commercial returns of my film.

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse.

By strengthening the core of our business and leading in digital innovation, we will accelerate growth, enhance our margin, and deliver increased total shareholder returns.

the relation between IQ and success follows the law of diminishing returns.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset -- a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment.

Product people are the stewards or guides who serve to ensure that these products, as investment assets, are tended to and nurtured to produce returns.

What our lives but a series of farewells and returns, no?

I'm happy to make returns of 4% to 6% a year on my real estate portfolio. If inflation comes along I'll be able to increase rent and have capital appreciation roughly in line with inflation.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.