Assets Quotes - Page 23

• Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

  Charlie Munger

  Integrity, Reputation, Remember

  "Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.

  Carl Icahn

  Comment, Agree, Bubbles

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• I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Interesting, Reeds

  "Spidey Bites: Stan Lee’s Secret for Saving Spider-Man the Musical? More Stan Lee!". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “
  “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “
  “Everyone is not your customer. “
  “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

  Seth Godin

  Fire, People, Trying

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• When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars… I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive.

  Marc Faber

  Real, Thinking, Vintage

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• You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

  Ray Dalio

  Should Have, Assuming, Asset Allocation

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• Your greatest asset is your paycheck. Disability insurance protects you and your family if you are unable to work by providing income which will help pay your bills and take care of your family. It's just as important as life insurance.

  Dave Ramsey

  Important, Income, Care

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• We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

  Robert Reich

  Home, Class, Why Not

  "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

  Bella Bathurst

  Children, Powerful, Book

  "The secret life of libraries" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Billy Zane

  Acting, Would Be, Tools

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• I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Thinking, Differences, Diversity

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• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  Kate Burton

  Theatrical, Ifs

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• What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

  James Chanos

  Cash Flow, Office, Doe

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• 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.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, America, Debt

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• If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

  Vinod Khosla

  Income, World, Metrics

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• I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Way, Being Me, Wealth

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• When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.

  Arthur Laffer

  Country, Growth, Who Cares

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

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Russia, Government, Doe

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• The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Military, Political Will, Gaps

  "Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns of 'two-tier' force" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Our children are our most important assets.

  Rodney Erickson

  Children, Important, Our Children

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• I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Beautiful, Country, Islands

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

  James Moore

  Loss, Thinking, Safe Haven

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• I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Book, Writing

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

  Mohamed El-Erian

  People, Currency, Exposed

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• Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

  Dale Archer

  Emotional, Keys, Understanding

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