Top 86 Investment Return Quotes
#1. For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.
Charles Roven
#2. Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
Max Von Sydow
#3. Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.
Clayton Christensen
#4. It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact way you would wish to be paid.
Auliq Ice
#5. What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#6. But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.
Kevin Mitnick
#7. Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
Charles R. Swindoll
#9. Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.
Simon Mainwaring
#10. You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant.
Brian Halligan
#11. You should consider search-based campaigns as the foundation of your online advertising. This is because search advertising typically sees higher conversion rates and better return on investment (ROI) than display or social campaigns.
Benjamin Mangold
#12. To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
Ho Chi Minh
#13. Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.
Frederick Lenz
#14. It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.
T.F. Hodge
#15. The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.
Steve Stivers
#16. Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters to nurture it. You were our pride, Mukoma Bryon. When you did not return, a whole village lost its investment. Africa is all that we have. If we do not build it, no one else will.
J. Nozipo Maraire
#17. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.
Sarah Carter
#18. Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
Noel Gallagher
#19. As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
Warren Buffett
#20. We understand that you have to create an environment where that those men and women who are entrepreneurs can risk their capital and have an opportunity to get a return on their investment. That's how jobs are created. And that's what Americans are looking for, is that type of vision.
Rick Perry
#21. A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
David Gates
#22. If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you'll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.
Kevin Leman
#23. No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
Brad Henry
#24. The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
Alex Winter
#25. When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.
Paul Gillin
#26. Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.
Warren Buffett
#27. Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.
Frederick Lenz
#28. In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
Stevie Wonder
#29. The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.
Seth Berkley
#30. That's the value of a college education ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
Gaston Caperton
#31. I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.
Wilson Greatbatch
#32. What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
Jim Rohn
#33. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.
Russell Simmons
#34. I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.
Mark Cuban
#35. Pay It Forward: A random act of kindness towards another person with no expectation of return on investment. (my own definition)
Michele Spry
#36. For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
Grace Napolitano
#37. The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.
Mark Steyn
#38. For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.
Bobby Sager
#39. In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.
Pierre Omidyar
#40. Love invests with no guarantee of a ROI. (Return On Investment)
T. Webb
#41. God gave you a gift and he deserves a return on his investment.
Suzanne Evans
#42. My God, these guys don't even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.
James C. Collins
#43. What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination
Gary Hamel
#45. Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.
Ben Bernanke
#46. Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!
James Altucher
#47. There isn't a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.
Foster Friess
#48. No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.
Meg Cabot
#49. Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.
Seth Klarman
#50. The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
Benjamin Graham
#51. I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.
Jon Tester
#53. So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#54. Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
William Forsyth Sharpe
#55. Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I'd rather have 'Sling Blade' and 'Shine' than 'Volcano.'
Sidney Sheinberg
#56. Everyone wants a conversation. They want inspiration. Inspire people with your website. Don't just interrupt, but interact. Asking about Return on Investment is the wrong question today. You should be asking about Return on Involvement.
Kevin Roberts
#57. Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
Frederick Lenz
#58. A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
Anne Bogart
#59. I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
J. B. Pritzker
#60. We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science
Seth Klarman
#61. In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.
Masayoshi Son
#62. in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.
Joseph A. Tainter
#63. The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.
Jim Loehr
#64. Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not consider the return on America's investment in NATO worth the cost.
Robert M. Gates
#65. If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.
William J. Bernstein
#66. Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment.
Max Brooks
#67. Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.
Tony Hsieh
#68. I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.
Ryan C. Gordon
#69. Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.
Mo Ibrahim
#70. The Human Resources Scorecard: Measuring the Return on Investment (ButterworthHeinemann, 2001),
Patricia Pulliam Phillips
#71. An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
Benjamin Graham
#72. In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
Marvin Ammori
#73. Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.
Lawrence Summers
#74. Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#75. The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.
Peter Lynch
#76. Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
Astro Teller
#79. in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).
Salim Ismail
#80. Here's something else, something important: Love is not transactional. It is not a bank account, you don't always get what you put in. Sometimes you put in so much and get very little return on your investment, at least that you can see right away.
Jenny Han
#81. Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?
Chip Conley
#82. Smaller games with smaller budgets and smaller audiences have the luxury of being more experimental or bizarre or interesting than 12 million dollar games that need to play it as safely as possible to ensure a return on investment.
Anna Anthropy
#83. Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'
Frederick W. Smith
#84. We are called to give God a return on the investment of brilliance, genius and ingenuity that was engrained in our souls before we took our first breath.
Shannon Tanner
#85. When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.
Rod Coronado
#86. It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment
Will Rogers
