"The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing."
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"Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses"
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"I want to return to the womb, anyone's."
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"In the life of one man, never The same time returns."
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"I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns."
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"In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive."
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"In my walks I would fain return to my senses."
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"We must return to nature and nature's god."
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"Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share."
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"Take it and return it: the kiss of love."
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"Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls."
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"All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return."
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"When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness."
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"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
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"If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate."
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"There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation."
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"It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors."
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"I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge."
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"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price."
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"To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return."
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