Top 100 Quotes About Dividends
#1. Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.
Moutasem Algharati
#3. Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.
Jack LaLanne
#4. The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
Henry Ward Beecher
#5. Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
Iggy Pop
#6. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.
Amah Lambert
#7. Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.
Alex Steffen
#9. Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.
Michael Lee-Chin
#10. One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
Janet Yellen
#11. The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.
Donald Trump
#12. Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.
Peter Drucker
#13. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B.C. Forbes
#14. As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
Najib Razak
#15. 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
#16. Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
John Burroughs
#17. Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
Al Jourgensen
#18. I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
T. Boone Pickens
#19. Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.
Bob Monkhouse
#20. There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#21. Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As
John C. Maxwell
#22. Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.
Terry Rossio
#23. I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
Larry Fitzgerald
#24. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#25. A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
Neil A. Maxwell
#26. People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#27. Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
Bob Ross
#28. I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.
Michele Bachmann
#30. Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#31. Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.
Thomas Perez
#32. All we cared about was dividends. Well, we can't do business that way today. We have learned that what's best for the countries we operate in is best for the company. Maybe we can't make the people love us, but we will make ourselves so useful to them that they will want us to stay.
Sam Zemurray
#33. The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends to shareholders are zero. This is a very peculiar way to run a republic.
Charlie Munger
#34. The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.
James L. Kraft
#35. All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ...
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#36. One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains.
Mike Huckabee
#37. As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
Susanna Kearsley
#38. Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.
Douglas R. Oberhelman
#39. The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.
Peter Drucker
#40. I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.
Mark Sanford
#41. The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time
Ken Blackwell
#42. The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.
Peter Cundill
#43. Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.
Tahir Shah
#44. Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
#45. Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!
B. J. Palmer
#46. Place the needs and wants and the hopes and dreams of your spouse first. Anything and everything you do with and for the other accrues to a common account that pays huge dividends.
Richard Foth
#47. A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
Maria Bartiromo
#48. Finally, I had my answer: I could. I could question the narrative I had been taught about myself. I could take a risk and have it pay off in dividends.
Various
#49. If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
William Moulton Marston
#50. Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.
Marvin Shanken
#51. I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.
Pallam Raju
#52. The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
Iain Banks
#53. And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
James MacArthur
#54. Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
Jim Rohn
#55. Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely
Ray Bergman
#56. At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.
Noel Whittaker
#57. Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
Aldo Leopold
#58. Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Craig Bruce
#60. I mean ... we'd just passed our one-year dating anniversary. I figured I was a sort of long-term investment for her. She hoped I would pay dividends eventually; if I died now, she would've put up with all my annoying qualities for nothing.
Rick Riordan
#61. Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?
William D. Cohan
#62. A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#63. My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income ... passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
Bill Walsh
#65. You will invest in something as you live your life, so make sure it is something that will pay dividends you will enjoy.
Joyce Meyer
#66. We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the March quarter. That brings cumulative payments under our capital return program to $66 billion.
Peter Oppenheimer
#67. Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks.
Robin S. Sharma
#68. An investment in self-development pays the highest dividends.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.
John C. Bogle
#70. I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.
Mitt Romney
#71. Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#72. An investment in education pays the best dividends that last for generations.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.
David McCullough
#75. 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
#76. Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller
#77. The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
Alan Greenspan
#78. She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'
Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.
Jerry Pinto
#80. The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
#81. Kindness costs us nothing and pays exponential dividends.
Kate Bartolotta
#82. I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
Simon Sinek
#83. It's hard to put a dollar value on that advice. It's the kind of thing that continues to pay dividends. But make no mistake: The advice had tangible economic value.
J.D. Vance
#84. The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.
Wernher Von Braun
#85. War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
Smedley Butler
#86. Yeah, it's real easy to look in the mirror and be proud when you're wearing pleated shorts. And you know what's really pathetic? I don't even have any dividends to get tax-decreased. When'll they cut taxes on not-having-health-insurancends?
David Rees
#88. It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.
Nancy Gibbs
#89. Love is the only investment that gives dividends without failure.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.
Shinzo Abe
#91. Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios.
Mike Krieger
#92. Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.
W. Edwards Deming
#93. Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
Roger Wicker
#94. The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Dan Buettner
#95. Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.
Jim Cantalupo
#96. In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.
Martha Manning
#97. The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Jodi Rell
#98. Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
Daniel Inouye
#99. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
#100. Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
Czeslaw Milosz
