Assets Quotes

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Liabilities are just assets in hiding.

Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

We believe in a strong dollar. Chinese financial assets are very safe.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically.

Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

My speed is my greatest asset.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Flexible approach - will look at ALL asset classes.

We have one asset, and that's people.

Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.