Returns Quotes
499 quotes by 409 authors
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And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers…
— Mark Levin
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso…
— Douglas Coupland
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
— Anne Lamott
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Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
— John Maurice Clark
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I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love…
— Paulo Coelho
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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
— Mark Twain
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Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing:…
— Warren Buffett
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Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day…
— John Quincy Adams
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One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first…
— Louis L'Amour
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Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is…
— Laozi
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Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
— Maynard James Keenan
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Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that
— Jan Garavaglia
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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…
— Fred Wilson
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When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never…
— Jeremy Grantham
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Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
— Emily Oster
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Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in…
— Jay S. Walker
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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.
— Steve Jurvetson
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We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this…
— Dario Fo
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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…
— Eugene Fama
Who Wrote These Returns Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 499 Returns Quotes, led by these top contributors: