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• A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

  John Allen Fraser

  Difficult Situations, Needs, Humour

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

  Eula Biss

  Children, Understanding, Doe

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• Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Home, Animal, Buying

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• In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Research

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage

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• The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Race, People

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• Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Investing, Movement, Earning

  "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• The best approach here, if at all possible, is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset-price bubble bursts in the future.

  Ben Bernanke

  Risk, Use, Investing

  "U.S. Fed boosts bank scrutiny" by Craig Torres and Michael McKee, www.nationalpost.com. November 20, 2009.

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• In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Sight, Use

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

  Tony Judt

  Opportunity, Talking, Needs

  "Tony Judt: 'I am not pessimistic in the very long run'". Interview With Stephen Foley, www.independent.co.uk. March 24, 2010.

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• Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  Keys, Europe, Important

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• Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

  Clare Balding

  Attitude, Children, Kids

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• Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Needs, Software, Stable

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

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Creating, Alliances

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• It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Government, Hands, Balance

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• My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, My Soul, Misfortunes

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

  W. H. Auden

  Summer, Waiting, Important

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• What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?

  B. C. Forbes

  Character, Self Confidence, America

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• The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Men, Self

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• Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.

  George Will

  Believe, Erosion, People

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• No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

  William J. Bernstein

  Retirement, Airplane, Thinking

  "Behavioral Finance And Indexing". Interview with Murray Coleman, www.etf.com. June 12, 2008.

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• The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.

  David F. Swensen

  Retirement, Simple, Government

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• The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

  William J. Bernstein

  Essence, Numbers, Use

  "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2007.

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• The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

  Benjamin Graham

  Age, Investing, Discussion

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Fees, Should

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• We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Needs, Investing, Timer

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