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“You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.”

“When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.”

Littles Doe Real Running Too Much Risk Return Credit Alternatives Desert Assets Cash Lenders Countdown

Author:Bill Gross

“Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.”

Company Return Expenses Equity Compounds Lenders

Author:Bill Gross

“The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.”

Mind Has Beens Motivational Would Be Mistake Danger Return Europe Sentiments Great Mistakes

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.”

Real Party Practice Path Worst Return Conviction Corruption Mexico Adversaries Authoritarianism Impunity

Author:Josefina Vazquez Mota

“The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.”

Years Loses Industry Return Clothes Customers Billions Headache Tag Retail Refunds

Author:Dan Ariely

“I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.”

Plans Return Things To Do

Author:Eduard Shevardnadze

“I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.”

Return Proud Boards

Author:David Filo

“Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.”

Want Giving Return I Want You

Author:Joe Torre

“Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.”

Different Type Return Portfolios

Author:Kenneth Fisher

“All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.”

Path Return Categories Equity Lifelong Identical

Author:Kenneth Fisher

“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.”

Wells Seems Moving Numbers Company Greater Return Picks Investment Investing Average Lists Logical Small Numbers Above Average

Book:The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success

Source: The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success

“In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.”

World Company Produce Return Standards

Author:Gary Hamel

“The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?”

People Should Persons Country Home Dies Lord Fate Design Return Battle Horse Noble Bounty

Author:Zhou Yu

“Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.”

Want Humans Practice Century Building Return Organization Corporate Welfare 19th Century

Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

“No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.”

Long Stills Sometimes Lying Son Return Angry Dear Profit Rage Stolen

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.”

Moving Fall Levels Practice Return Discipline Territory Fall Back Beginners

Book:The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master

Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master

“My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.”

Mind Childhood Taught Return Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Elena Roger

“No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.”

Ifs Giving Humans Ideas Form Return Percent Profitable Dividends

Author:Napoleon Hill

“You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.”

Ifs Jobs Opportunity Teaching Missing Return Anxiety Optimism Performances Strive Average Cures Improving Exceed Teaching Someone

Book:The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

“No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.”

Long Found Born Return Tickets Found You

Book:Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld

Source: Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld

“You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.”

Should Writing Stories Behinds Doors Return Manuscripts Closed Doors

Author:Michael Koryta

“Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.”

Economic College Return Significant Disagree Elites Economist Versus Attending Selective

Author:Emily Oster

“To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Two Happens Dies Evil Return Victory Deeds Triumph New Life Theologian Perpetrators Protestantism Infusion

Book:The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

Source: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

“My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.”

Careers Risk Security Return Involved Research Management Active Academic Derivatives Scholes Pricing Academic Research Active Management

Author:Myron Scholes

“I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.”

People Different Form Objects Return Agree Assets Different Peoples

Author:Thomas Piketty

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.”

Giving Mind Littles Home House Worry Return Couple Cost Shapes Generous Seats

Author:Ivor Novello

“There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.”

Years Play Actors Return Theatre Enjoyed Cinema Charm Twelve Chapters

Author:Boman Irani

“There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.”

People Way Want Matter Government Able Can Do Modern Return Taxes Judgment Direct Bills Enormous Excess Wages Taxation Salary Modern Life Better Ways Annuals Withholding

Author:Karl Hess

“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.”

Children School Brain Modern Return September Modern Life Grownups

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“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.”

Wells States Might Moral New York Return Summer Population Manners Vacation Mars Prohibition Thirteen Comets New York State Summer Vacation Halley's Comet

Author:Clarence Darrow

“"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."”

Thinking May Character Interesting One Thing Return Dear Dinner Interesting Characters

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.”

Inspirational Young Communication Return Expectations Fellows Great Expectations Great Expectations Important

Author:Charles Dickens

“All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.”

Art Poetry Conditions Return Ritual Nourishment Emulate

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.”

Art Poetry Language Social Return Function Narrative Narrative Art

Author:Ron Silliman

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?”

Children Long Problem Bigs School Process Parent Return Decent Big Problems Dumbing Down

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.”

Ifs Helping Care Return Deeds Helping Others Gods Will Settling Expecting Good Deeds

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”

“The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.”

Jesus Christ Return Blessing Jesus Christ Thanks Manifestation Grieving Definite Ingratitude

Author:R. A. Torrey

“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”

“I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.”

Beautiful Return Sweetness Dressings Lace Ladylike

Author:Glenda Bailey

“Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.”

Way Share Return Lows Rate One Way Buying Good Business Purchasing Bad Business

Author:Joel Osteen

“Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.”

Stills Planets Return Involved Work Out Karma Enlightened Negativity

Author:Dolores Cannon

“Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.”

Return Dust Ashes Amen Dust To Dust

Author:Alexander Anderson

“I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.”

States Form Law Asks Modern Return Guise Saloons

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.”

May Water Return Bed Rivers Deeper Sooner Or Later Digging Deserted Archetype Water Of Life

Author:Carl Jung

“Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.”

Men Has Beens Body Animal Teach Taught Return Advantage Add Organs

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.”

Science Return Distance Detours

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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