Return of money—means you’re not going to lose it. You put it in a safe place and it comes back to you.
Return on your money—means rolling the dice on a business venture or in a real estate deal or even putting it all on riskier stock market investments. Some people think the stock market isn’t risky because it always comes back. That’s true, but it took 15 years for the NASDAQ to come back after it crashed twenty years ago.
If you’re willing to wait that long, great.
Efficiency incorporates the know-how to ensure low expenses, low taxes, getting your money to provide more than one benefit at a time, and handling debt effectively (and I’m not talking about the “snowball effect.”)
When I talk to people about money, I tell them four things: