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Returns Quotes by Warren Buffett
- 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…
- The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years…
- Activity is the enemy of investment returns.
- You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow…
- Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company…
- As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
- Returns decrease as motion increases.
- Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow…
- I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it…
- 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:…
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- There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong… — Jean Cocteau
- Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a… — John Templeton
- He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi
- The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every… — Lloyd deMause
- A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some… — Susan Faludi
- Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. — Charles Kingsley
- The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home. — Barbara De Angelis