Assets Quotes
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.
The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.
The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.
Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.
It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.
The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.
Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.
Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.
You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.
The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.
The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.
Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.
I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
