Gains Quotes - Page 30

• While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Sorry, Mean, Years

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• 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.

  Burton Malkiel

  Running, Long, Friendly

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• Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

  Burton Malkiel

  Investing, Taxes, Trade

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• In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in a marketable security the gain or loss associated with the various outcomes is not totally inherent in the underlying business; it also depends on the price paid, which is established by the marketplace. The view that risk is dependent on both the nature of investments and on their market price is very different from that described by beta.

  Seth Klarman

  Cutting, Loss, Views

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• I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Running, Believe, Long

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• People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, People, Growth

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• It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Law, Work Out

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• How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?

  Maria Gowen Brooks

  Loss, Bears, Disaster

  Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.140

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• Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Loss, Reputation, Manifest

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• Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Accusation, Fallen

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Mirrors, Imperfection, Way

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64

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• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

  Teresa of Avila

  Exercise, Self, Perfect

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• You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Art, Style, Easy

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• The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Challenges, Tasks, Needs

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Perseverance, May, Resolution

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Mind, Resources

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• ... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Organization, Order

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• When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Choices, Doe, Tasks

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 28, 1846.

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• Bad gains are true losses.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.76, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Vices

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

  Theresa Villiers

  Art, Passion, Love Is

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• To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

  Joan Miro

  Simplicity

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• What is one man's gain is another's loss.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Loss, Men, One Man

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