Dividends Quotes:

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

- George Carlin

source: Source: reprints.longform.org

topic: Compulsion, Dividends

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

- Czeslaw Milosz

topic: Poetry Is, Knows, Dividends

The peace dividend is peace.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Peace, Dividends

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

topic: Attention, Investing, Pay, Dividends

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Life, Success, Business, Successful Investing, Dividends

If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else.

- Jamie Dimon

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Somewhere Else, Giving, Use, Dividends

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

- Al Jourgensen

topic: Lessons, Shapes, Pay, Dividends, Hard Lessons

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.

topic: Money, Children, Memories, Dividends

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

- Kevin O'Leary

topic: Philosophy, Simple, Pay, Dividends

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

- Laurence D. Fink

topic: Yield, Decision, Looks, Dividends

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

- Ray Kroc

source: 1988 Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4 Jul.

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Business, Sweat And Tears, Sweating

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

- Maria Bartiromo

topic: Money, Mean, People, Shareholders, Oreos

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

- William Moulton Marston

topic: Defeat, Ability, Draws, Dividends

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

source: John C. Bogle (2012). “The John C. Bogle Reader”, p.1110, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Successful, Growth, Investing, Successful Investing, Dividends

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

- Jean Chretien

topic: Country, Mean, Want, Means To An End, Dividends

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

- B. C. Forbes

source: B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.63, Lulu.com

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Mind, Dividends

President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that could be worth millions of dollars to average Americans. Well, average stock-owning Americans. Technically, Americans who own a significant amount of shares in dividend-dealing companies. Well, rich people, that's what I'm trying to say. They're going to do really well with this.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Average, People, Trying, Rich People, Dividends

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

topic: Gambling, Land, Risk, Dividends

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

- James MacArthur

topic: Ideas, Good Things, Old Fashioned, Dividends

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

topic: Math, College, Years, Dividends

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

- Peter Cundill

topic: Company, Has Beens, Paid, Dividends

I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Baseball, Believe, Thinking, Dividends, Baseball Cards

The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.

- Jim Stanford

topic: Corporations, Return, Income, Dividends, Tax Returns

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

- Craig Reucassel

topic: Liberalism, Conservatism, Dividends

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

topic: Marriage, Children, Cutting, Capital Gains, Dividends

I like the idea of company-paid dividends.

- Walter Schloss

topic: Ideas, Investing, Company, Dividends

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

- Jeremy Grantham

topic: Hate, Work Out, Gold, Dividends

Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.

- Jamie Dimon

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Thinking, People, Use, Dividends

Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.

- Jack Welch

topic: Jobs, Winning, Giving, Dividends, Share Price

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

- John Burroughs

source: "Writings: Indoor studies".

topic: Genius, Literature, Investment, Dividends

In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

topic: Running, Commitment, Successful, Dividends, Balance Sheets

The good thing about the dividend-paying stocks is, first of all you have stocks, which are real assets if we have some inflation. I think we're going to have 2%, 3% maybe 4%. That's a sweet spot for stocks. Corporations do well with that. It gives them pricing power. Their assets move up with prices. I'm not fearful of that inflation.

- Jeremy Siegel

topic: Sweet, Real, Moving, Dividends, Pricing

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

- John Templeton

topic: Generosity, Giving, Risk, Dividends

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

- Walter Bagehot

source: Walter Bagehot (1873). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.37

topic: Lying, Idle, Greater, Dividends

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

- James L. Kraft

topic: Generosity, Investment, Lord, Stewards, Dividends

Here’s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Let’s say you own a Procter & Gamble in your portfolio and the stock price goes down by half. Do you like it better? If it falls in half, do you reinvest dividends? Do you take cash out of savings to buy more? If you have the confidence to do that, then you’re an investor. If you don’t, you’re not an investor, you’re a speculator, and you shouldn’t be in the stock market in the first place.

- Seth Klarman

topic: Fall, Makeup, Saving, Stock Price, Speculators

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.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Ideas, Giving, Return, Dividends

All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.

- Benjamin Graham

source: "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 17, 1949.

topic: Real, Mean, Past, Dividends, Buying And Selling

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: "Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc".

topic: Atheist, Promise, Littles, Dividends

Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!

- B. J. Palmer

topic: Chiropractic, Dividends

One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.

- Heber J. Grant

topic: Believe, Sacrifice, Giving, Dividends, Faithful Service

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Maturity, Patient, Individual, Dividends

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

- Mian Muhammad Mansha

topic: People, Income, Pay, Dividends

Doing things for others always pays dividends...

- Claude M. Bristol

source: Claude M. Bristol (2014). “The Magic of Believing”, p.111, Courier Corporation

topic: Doing Things For Others, Pay, Cooperation, Dividends

When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

topic: Leadership, Communication, Organization, Stakeholder, Partnering

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ...

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

source: Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”

topic: Government, Order, States, Dividends

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

- Henry Adams

topic: Editing, Retrospect, Rebel, Dividends

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

topic: Home, House, Spurs, Dividends

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

topic: Believe, Opportunity, Effort, Dividends, Election Time

'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.

- James Hansen

source: A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

topic: Special, Spurs, Climate, Disadvantaged, Dividends

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Self, Boss, Dividends

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Wind, Dividends

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

- Ian Fleming

source: Ian Fleming (1964). “On her Majesty's Secret Service”

topic: Worry, Disaster, Dividends