Assets Quotes - Page 3

Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.

We exist to build the business of our clients. The recommendations we make to them should be the recommendations we would make if we owned their companies, without regard to our own short-term interest. This earns their respect, which is the greatest asset we can have.

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

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

Your greatest resource is your time.

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

My mind is my biggest asset.

Get your assets working for you so that your "ass" isn't working for someone else.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

Your will to succeed remains one of your greatest assets.

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".

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

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Liabilities are just assets in hiding.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

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.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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