Returns Quotes

499 quotes by 409 authors

The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes… — Warren Buffett
Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the risks incurred. Ultimately,… — Seth Klarman
Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing… — Joseph Stiglitz
Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In my… — Jeffrey Skoll
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside,… — Pete Gill
I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives… — John Masefield
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable — Jeremy Irons
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured… — Beryl Markham
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a… — Carl Jung
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand… — Herbert Hoover
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom. — Oliver Goldsmith
Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the… — David Miliband
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I. — Ben Jonson
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride. — Bernard Malamud
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of… — Adrienne Rich
The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. — Thomas Keller
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the… — Avital Ronell
Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an… — Seth Klarman
All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come — Seth Klarman
Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and… — Seth Klarman

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