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Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors will own the shares of technology companies. Many also shun commercial banks, which they consider to have unanalyzable assets, as well as property and casualty insurance companies, which have both unanalyzable assets and liabilities.

Seth Klarman

Technology, Commercial Banks, Share

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Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.

Keeth Smart

Thinking, Knowing, Opponents

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If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don’t waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.

Greg Plitt

Giving, Promise, Waste

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...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

Sue Sanders

Work, Years, Hardship

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My biggest asset is my combination of size and speed.

Chad Ochocinco

Size, Speed, Combination

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I think it’s unfair that people can’t give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person — you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, ‘You can give your assets to anybody you want.’

Foster Friess

Gay, Thinking, People

"Republican Mega-Donor Foster Friess Urges Moderate Path On Gay Rights" by Chris Geidner, www.buzzfeed.com. March 15, 2013.

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People are our greatest asset .

Dave Ulrich

People

Twitter post from Nov 07, 2016

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Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.

Jane Roberts

Dream, Natural, Therapy

Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.246, Amber-Allen Publishing

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Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Mind, Remember, Be Careful

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My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Morning, Weakness, Arms

"Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Oskar Kokoschka

Girl, Art, Men

Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”

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Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

Ravi Shastri

Determination, Team, Boys

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I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

Vicente Fox

New York, Believe, Mean

"Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue With Bill". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2007.

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Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

Michael Parenti

Russia, Political, Treasure

Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.140, City Lights Books

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Edge also implies what Ben Graham....called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at a price that is substantially less than its value. As Graham noted, the margin of safety 'is available for absorbing the effect of miscalculations or worse than average luck.' ...Graham expands, "The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price."

Michael Mauboussin

Average, Safety, Luck

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At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what's priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no 'good' or 'bad' horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones.

Michael Mauboussin

Running, Horse, Odds

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Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.

Henry Earl Singleton

Attitude, Keys, Cash Flow

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If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.

Seth Klarman

Cash Flow, Might, Pay

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In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.

Peter Cundill

Real, Character, Needs

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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Maimonides

Wise, Kings, Men

Moses Maimonides (1956). “Moses Maimonides: Rambam”

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Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

Twiggy

Covering, Elbows, Arms

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Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.

Michael Lewis

Dog, Cat, Pet

"Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World". Book by Michael Lewis, 2011.

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The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.

Robert D. Arnott

Hands, Management, Investment

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A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

Dolly Parton

Heart, Gold, Wonderful

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I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad

Powerful, Thinking, Stories

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