Assets Quotes
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Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.
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Our trend in the privatization process and gradual withdrawal of the state from certain assets remains unchanged.
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The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
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Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.
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People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.
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Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
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It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.
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I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
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Time is one of my most valuable assets.
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I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.
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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.
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I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.
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Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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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.
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The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.
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The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
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Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.
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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.
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Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
