Top 100 Quotes About Returns
#1. Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Mitch Albom
#2. Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
#3. Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#4. Investors know that a major factor to investing success is the ability to go where others will not. That's where an investor will be able to achieve excess returns versus the overall market, if executed properly. However, the concept of contrarianism can be taken to extremes at times.
J. Lukas Neely
#5. One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
#6. Why must people be hateful toward anyone who is different?
Because we live in a fallen world, my girl. I'm afraid people will continue to find reasons to hate until the day Jesus returns.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#7. Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable.
Patricia Highsmith
#8. In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
Gary Hamel
#9. 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
#10. Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living!
Hal Lindsey
#11. Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
Sri Chinmoy
#12. In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset - a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets.
Stephen R. Covey
#13. It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
Benjamin Rush
#14. Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.
Erma Bombeck
#15. If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.
Jeff Bezos
#16. Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven't reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are self-employed or have multiple income sources, hold on to six years of files to be absolutely safe.
Suze Orman
#17. First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
Robert Creeley
#18. If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.
Tony Curl
#19. One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.
Paulo Coelho
#20. The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.
Jim Breyer
#21. It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought;
Victor Hugo
#22. So when people ask Galbraith, why is the change in marijuana laws important to the people of this country, because it returns to the people the right to plant a seed in God's earth and consume the green natural plant that comes up out of it.
Gatewood Galbraith
#23. In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.
Lakshmi
#24. The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.
Kevin Sampsell
#25. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Kathleen Norris
#27. The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.
Tom Rath
#28. Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman
#29. One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.
Mary Meeker
#30. Everything always returns to the beginning.
Lisa See
#31. So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.
Maurice Thompson
#32. It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.
Rudolf Steiner
#33. What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much.
Victoria Roberts
#34. So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,- The after-echo of departed years,- And touches all the soul to tears.
Henry Van Dyke
#35. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.
Jim Carroll
#36. Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.
Peter Diamandis
#37. The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
Agatha Christie
#38. As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels the weather patterns on Earth, where your negative thoughts go out and gather negative energy, bringing the negativity back to you on its return trip. So
Dianne Robbins
#39. It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.
Joel Greenblatt
#40. I'm having too much fun declaring & demonstrating the Kingdom of God, it's okay if He waits till he returns!!!."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#41. A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
William Booth
#42. That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
Henry Cloud
#43. Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.
Voltaire
#45. The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.
Russell Brand
#46. T."
One word, one letter, from Malcom.
"Yeah, Saint?" Tahoe returns, lifting his eyebrows.
"Dibs.
Katy Evans
#48. There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.
Clifford A. Pickover
#49. If you have been born only once, you will have to die twice. But if you have been born twice, you will have to die only once (and you may even escape that one death if Jesus returns to the earth during your lifetime).
David Jeremiah
#50. Germany will forgive itself so much that it returns to arms.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#51. What goes out always returns; remember to be kind to yourself.
Janni Styles
#52. Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everything done in positive = returns positive.... sometimes comes and negative.
Deyth Banger
#53. Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
Lord Chesterfield
#54. In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.
Roland Barthes
#55. Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger.
Mary Browne
#56. The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.
Tyler Cowen
#57. Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.
Margery Wilson
#58. Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
Emily Oster
#59. My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Randy Castillo
#60. Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
Carson McCullers
#61. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
Friedrich Holderlin
#62. Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
Barack Obama
#63. When she returns," Aedion said quietly, "what she will do to the King of Adarlan will make the slaughtering ten years ago look merciful." And in his heart, Aedion hoped he spoke true.
Sarah J. Maas
#64. The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.
Mary McCarthy
#65. Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.
Jeff Cox
#66. He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.
Robert Penn Warren
#67. 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
#68. Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
Alain De Botton
#69. We've found, empirically, that long-term revenue growth - particularly organic revenue growth - is the most important driver of shareholder returns for companies with high returns on capital.
Tim Koller
#71. The life-cycle valuation model is uniquely useful to investors seeking excess returns as well as to corporate managements and boards that need a valuation compass to guide decision making. Figure
Bartley J Madden
#72. The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
Tim LaHaye
#73. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#74. Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
John Podhoretz
#75. I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
Guy Laliberte
#76. The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#77. The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.
Pope Pius XII
#78. I brought the cup to my lips with greed
Begging for longevity, my temporal need
Cup brought its to mine, its secret did feed
Time never returns, drink, of this take heed
Omar Khayyam
#79. The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.
Steven Pressfield
#80. We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.
Kema Chikwe
#81. The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.
James H. Austin
#82. He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.
LaVell Edwards
#84. Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#85. If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?
Glenn Beck
#86. The sun is good because it does the body good, and because it has the sense to reappear every day; therefore, whatever returns is good, not what passes and is done with.
Umberto Eco
#88. In the bullring, the terrified bull always returns to same spot as if it is a place of safety. It is called the querencia. In writing, I had found my querencia. My place, my passion.
Chloe Thurlow
#89. We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns.
Cheryl Richardson
#90. Our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows. -Martin Renner
Michael Pollan
#91. The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.
Thomas Keller
#92. Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.
Denis Diderot
#93. Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi
#94. Whatever/ returns from oblivion/ returns to find a voice.
Louise Gluck
#95. Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
Bhartrhari
#96. Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
#97. Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of time looking forward to a glimpse of the outside world and then, when she returns, even more time complaining about it.
Kate Atkinson
#98. You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that
Jan Garavaglia
