Assets Quotes - Page 10

• The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Fuel

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Cities, United States

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, World, Labor

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• I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Dollars, Care

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• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

  Sara Blakely

  Optimistic, Knowing, Scare

  "INSTANT MBA: 'If You Do Things Without Knowing How They've Always Been Done, You're Guaranteed To Do Them Differently'" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2011.

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• To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

  Matt Taibbi

  Running, Wall, Oil

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• Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

  Reid Hoffman

  Focus, Sailing, Growth

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Divides, One Thing

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 15, 2012

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• He stepped forward and punched Dorian in the face, hard enough that I heard a thwack. "Ow," moaned Dorian, wincing from the pain. "My greatest asset.

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Faces, Enough

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.286, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Army, Darkness

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• The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

  Quentin Crisp

  Journey, Long, Style

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• They’re ogling you, dude. Talking about your assets and the fact that you’re nauseatingly ripped, which I would have been had I not bit the dust at seventeen. I’m forever trapped in my tall, gangly phase. (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dust, Talking, Forever

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.124, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

  Ray Dalio

  Class, Two, Growth

  CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

  Sigmund Freud

  Suffering, Tasks, Elements

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• Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.

  Joel Osteen

  Struggle, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

  Jane Fonda

  People, Way, Young

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Gone Away, Ideas, Long

  "Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Risk

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Long, People

  "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Delight, Development

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Long, Derivatives, Attempting

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.88, Penguin

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• Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Weakness, Social

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• As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Loss, Grandchildren

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• -You think I’ve got a big ego and an attitude problem? -I don’t think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it’s a Fuentes flaw. -I’d call it an asset. It’s what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible. Carlos and Brittany

  Simone Elkeles

  Brother, Attitude, Thinking

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