I’ve read a ton of investment books recently and I’m always collecting interesting quotes or underlining passages so I figured I might start sharing some on the Money is Choices blog. The first lot of quotes will be about dividends from stocks.
If increasing dividend payments don’t get you excited then you need to check your pulse. I see them as Freedom dollars and do everything I can to increase them every month.
List of Stock Dividend Quotes
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.”
John D. Rockefeller – Oil Baron
“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 – Billionaire Businessman
“I have made plenty of mistakes in acquisitions and will make more. Overall, however, our record is satisfactory, which means that our shareholders are far wealthier today than they would be if the funds we used for acquisitions had instead been devoted to share repurchases or dividends.”
Warren Buffett – Billionaire Oracle of Omaha
“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 – American Investor and Founder of the Vanguard Index Funds Company
“I don’t like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.”
T. Boone Pickens – Billionaire Financier
“My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income…passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.”
Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad Author
“The stockholder wants both income and appreciation, but in general the more he gets of one the less he realizes of the other.”
Benjamin Graham – Value Investing and Author of the Intelligent Investor
“Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it.”
John C. Bogle – American Investor and Founder of the Vanguard Index Funds Company
“One common way of judging whether housing’s price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.”
Janet Yellen – Federal Reserve Chairman
“Companies paying a dividend and increasing it by five or ten percent every year are the most magical things on this beautiful planet. Stay invested in them and reinvest everything back into your portfolio for long enough and you can’t but become rich.”
Anonymous Dividend Investor
More Stock Dividends Quotes and Sayings
What do you think about stock dividends and investing for income?
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