“In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].” HelpingSupportImpossibleWillingReturnKingsEnglandPrisonFinancialJewTrialsArrangementsAdequateAdviseAssassinsAdmissionFinancial SupportCharles I Author:Oliver Cromwell
“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.” BelieveSelfShowsWould BeWantedUsedI BelieveQualityCreativeProductsReturnFinancialProfitProductionsCirclesFeeding Author:Guy Laliberte
“I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.” MightChoicesReturnFinancialMotivated Author:Stephen Daldry
“The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed.” SpiritualGrowsNaturalPrinciplesFashionEmotionalReturnPlantFinancialSeedsSomedaySowing Author:Paul J. Meyer
“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.” ThinkingWantShouldKindMayMadeCreativeReturnInvestmentFinancialPursueFinancial Investment Author:Meg Cabot
“The FBI announced today that they are now looking for Osama bin Laden's financial adviser. You think this guy is in demand. How good can he be? his top client is living in a cave and driving a donkey. It doesn't sound like he is getting the best return on his investments to me.” ThinkingTodayGuySoundReturnDemandInvestmentFinancialDrivingClientsCavesThis GuyFbiBin LadenOsama Bin LadenAdviserDonkey Author:Jay Leno
“Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.” KnowsShouldLongStatesThreeTermUnitedCitiesUnited StatesGroupsBuildingReturnPercentInvestingFinancialBritishCoreBlockSubstanceLong TermFundGapsInvestorsQuartersContinuingRhetoricPeersCompoundsAnnualsHighlightsEmulateProvidersPortfoliosBuilding BlocksVanguardIndex FundsFinancial ServicesPeer Group Author:Jonathan Davis
“Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.” IfsLongImportantRunningRealizingShareSubjectsSecurityReturnTaxesGainsInvestingFinancialRealizationConsiderationFriendlyFundAllowingInvestorsLong RunsSwitchingStock PriceCapital GainsIndex Funds Author:Burton Malkiel
“The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.” NeedsNightOrderSleepReturnShotsMy FriendsInvestingFinancialPursueExtrasPermitFamily And FriendsTradingPercentagesCharlieGood NightCalculus Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.” PeopleMayExampleReturnSucceedBuiltInvestingFinancialDecadesPassiveConsistentlyPersistAbnormalFinancial MarketsConfiguration Author:Alan Greenspan
“Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.” IfsMenKindKnownReturnOrganizationIndependenceFinancialOddsAssuredPowerlessnessDubiousDaily ExperienceBusiness Organization Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.” PeopleDifferentSelfBigsLyingInterestAbilityBusinessReturnGeniusDiscoveryCapitalismInnovationResponsibleIncrediblesFinancialDrivenPursuitBroadsSelf Interest Author:Bill Gates
“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to our clients for a quarter century-a dollar invested at inception in our largest fund is now worth over 94 dollars, a 20% net compound return. We have achieved this not by incurring high risk as financial theory would suggest, but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks that we identified.” ValuesRiskCenturyTheoryReturnDollarsFinancialFundInvestorsQuartersClientsAvoidingBargainsCompoundsFinancial MarketsInceptionHigh RiskIncurringHedging Author:Seth Klarman
“Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.” ThinkingShouldLongDoeLastsOpportunityTermClearFocusRiskReturnIncreaseCrisisSellsDollarsStriveFinancialProfitConservativeLong TermConsiderationCrucialInvestorsRollingEnteringDistractedFinancial CrisisPortfoliosNew OpportunityBackseatClear Thinking Author:Seth Klarman
“Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.” BelieveWellsLongDifferentSeemsUnderstandingTermFocusRiskReturnLessonsLateApproachInvestmentExtraordinaryFinancialContraryLong TermCyclesInvestorsAversionResoluteFinancial MarketsMaximizingRisk Aversion Author:Seth Klarman
“I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.” SaidImportantProblemHandsLevelsIssuesFieldsIndustryReturnEuropeFinancialTreatedMinistersTreatmentPrimeIntroducingPrime MinisterSupportiveExceptionalGlovesPlaying FieldsFragmentedLevel Playing FieldEurozoneFinancial ServicesService Industry Author:Nick Clegg
“We're not paying a real price for carbon. If we were, we wouldn't be using as much. We need to have the right perspective. It's not just about next quarter's financial return. It's about where we want to be in ten years.” IfsWantNeedsYearsRealNextPerspectiveReturnTenFinancialQuartersCarbon Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.” PeopleWorldWayKindTermBreakDevelopmentReturnModelsSolutionsImpactInvestmentPatientInvestingFinancialExperimentsFinanceNew WaysPhilanthropyVentureVenture CapitalCapital Investment Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“I don't think that we need to see [Donald Trump] tax returns to verify his financial acumen. I walk into the Trump Tower every day and I'm like, this guy did pretty well for himself before I got here.” ThinkingNeedsWellsGuyWalksReturnTrumpTaxesFinancialTowersThis GuyVerifyTax ReturnsAcumen Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.” GivingReturnTaxesRateFinancialDetailsStatementsDisclosureTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“We should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers.” PeopleShouldReturnDemandTaxesFinancialReleaseEntanglementTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.” Has BeensMotivationValuesFatherPartyPrinciplesClearFocusEconomicReturnFinancialViolentTeaRacistRestraintFoundingTea PartyHomophobic Author:Andrew Breitbart
“There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.” WantYearsMayReasonRememberTurnsInterestReturnTrumpTaxesPagesIncludingFinancialCampaignsRussiaRelativeAngleDisclosureSummaryTax Returns Author:Norman L. Eisen
“Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.” PeopleMindAbleGrowthEconomyWorstReturnCrisisInstitutionsFinancial1930sFinancial System Author:Barack Obama
“Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'” ShouldStillsCountryFactsJobsEasyStepsStreetsWallReturnBillsFinancialCongressHillsFraudPreparingPuppetsSlamCapitolMain StreetMuppetOrwellianCapitol Hill Author:Eliot Spitzer