Assets Quotations

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients.

I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.

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

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

Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.

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.

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.

When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

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

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

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.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

There is no law saying you have to die before your assets can be passed to loved ones. In fact, gifting earlier can be a lovely way to witness how your money helps your family thrive.

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

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

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

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

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

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.

When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).

When you think in dollar terms, there are plenty of cheap assets out there to be bought, and that's exactly what's happening.

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

Until President Bush tells us he is willing to do everything possible to stop illegal immigrants from crossing our borders -- including the commitment of military assets to the task,

We've always talked about the pressure from the outside and contrasting that with Terrell Suggs . If that's a nickel role, you're talking 15-25 snaps. He's capable of doing more, but we have a lot of assets here to balance that out. If we can use him more, we will.

We've always said this is a rebuilding phase that we're in, and we keep trying to acquire assets to help us in that process. In doing that, we also want to secure and help our present.

We're going to put our assets together so we can leverage one another's distribution,

We believe year-end redemptions drove a 10% decline in average assets under management to $3 billion.

We believe this process will lead to the maximization of value of Enron's core energy assets and the mitigation of risk by removing viable operations out from under Chapter 11, ... fire sale.

U.S. travel businesses and organizations must move quickly to realize the value of their industry-exclusive .travel Internet domain in the global context. Protecting our nation's valuable tourism assets can be done by simply registering them with their .travel domain names.

WorldCom will consider any serious offer but it is highly unlikely we would consider selling any of our core assets such as MCI or local assets.

Working together we will create the new Commerce Virtual Private Bank, the next great idea in building customer relationships. Our dynamic Virtual Private Bank will enable our customers to bring all of their Commerce assets together and link them to the assets and liabilities they have with any of more than 3,400 financial providers around the world.

We feel as a long-term strategy having a portion of assets hedged is reasonable.

We feel that the traditional accounting measures designed to capture physical assets are deficient in capturing the full value of a firm.

Through a gift of marketing, he has promoted the cause of watching hate groups. He has very successfully gained the assets to place the Southern Poverty Law Center on solid financial ground

With these satellites NGA provides FEMA with geospatial information that can cover the affected states. With information provided by these assets FEMA is better able to make assessments on the overall damage and decide where to focus resources.

With very strong overall performance early in the quarter, we are seeing flows into the industry pick up once again, in contrast to the recent trend of assets remaining on the sidelines.

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

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

With this acquisition, CA will be the only company to address the management of applications, IT assets and users across all hardware and software, from the mainframe to the distributed environment.

We've got assets that we bring to the table that no one else has. That allows us to be able to compete in a world where at first blush people say it's impossible for independents to come in and survive, much less sustain, and be around for long periods of time.

We have seen a growing demand from ... employers, who want to provide their employees with additional assistance both in making investment decisions and allocating their assets to help them be more retirement ready.

We wanted to work with Sierra Mist to create something that was relevant to our viewers and people who love comedy. We have two brands that make a lot of sense. It's a perfect alignment of assets that speaks to the TBS viewer.

We were aware that we really had to change the cost structure of the company and change the investment profile and the focus to some degree and shed some assets in order to remain competitive, ... It is clear that just fixing our operational issues, although critical, is not sufficient.

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It's the assets you have to worry about.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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".

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

There are plenty of funds that have between 25 and 33 percent of their assets in techs. Most people would be better off with that kind of aggressive growth fund,

There are economies of scale you can enjoy as an owner when you have a large portfolio of assets as Blackstone has now. At some point you may see Blackstone doing an IPO of the portfolio.

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

We have so many different players who can be assets in so many different positions for us. It's just a matter of getting the right players in there at the right time.