Dividends Quotes

• 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

  Attention, Investing, Pay

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

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

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Somewhere Else, Giving, Use

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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

  Al Jourgensen

  Lessons, Shapes, Pay

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• 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.

  Money, Children, Memories

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• 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

  Philosophy, Simple, Pay

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• 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

  Yield, Decision, Looks

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

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Basketball, Business

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

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

  Maria Bartiromo

  Money, Mean, People

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

  William Moulton Marston

  Defeat, Ability, Draws

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• 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

  Successful, Growth, Investing

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

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• 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

  Country, Mean, Want

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

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Honesty, Mind

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

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• 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

  Average, People, Trying

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• 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

  Land, Gambling, Risk

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

  James MacArthur

  Ideas, Good Things, Old Fashioned

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• 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

  Math, College, Years

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

  Peter Cundill

  Company, Has Beens, Paid

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• 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

  Baseball, Believe, Thinking

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• 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

  Corporations, Return, Income

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• Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

  Craig Reucassel

  Liberalism, Conservatism

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• 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

  Marriage, Children, Cutting

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• I like the idea of company-paid dividends.

  Walter Schloss

  Ideas, Investing, Company

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• 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

  Hate, Work Out, Gold

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Use

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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