Assets Quotes

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. View quote
Michael Korda
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions. View quote
Adam Rich
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. View quote
Henry Miller
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. View quote
Richard Branson
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die. View quote
Steve Jobs
When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that. (Stephen Harper)
A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own. View quote
John Ashcroft
Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
We believe in a strong dollar ... Chinese financial assets are very safe. View quote
Timothy Geithner
The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it. View quote
Bill Mollison
The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible. View quote
Stanisław Lem
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. View quote
Michael Parenti
Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Capital is defined as the sum total of nonhuman assets that can be owned and exchanged on some market. View quote
Thomas Piketty
Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies. (Mohamed El-Erian)
Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints. View quote
Rick Riordan
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts. View quote
Suze Orman
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt. View quote
Alex Berenson
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled. View quote
James Surowiecki