Assets Quotes - Page 25

• My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, My Soul, Misfortunes

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

  W. H. Auden

  Summer, Waiting, Important

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• What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?

  B. C. Forbes

  Character, Self Confidence, America

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• The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Men, Self

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• Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.

  George Will

  Believe, Erosion, People

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• No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

  William J. Bernstein

  Retirement, Airplane, Thinking

  "Behavioral Finance And Indexing". Interview with Murray Coleman, www.etf.com. June 12, 2008.

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• The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.

  David F. Swensen

  Retirement, Simple, Government

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• The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

  William J. Bernstein

  Essence, Numbers, Use

  "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ocean, Gun, Two

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• 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".

  Benjamin Graham

  Age, Investing, Discussion

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Fees, Should

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• We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Needs, Investing, Timer

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• You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Risk, Buying, Investing

  "A little perspective, please". Interview with Janice Revell and Joe Light, money.cnn.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

  Walter Schloss

  Trying, Investing, Earning

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• A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Plant, Equipment

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• You can't have the space for prosperity and success when you are obsessed with security. It is not possible to obtain unwavering security - physical, emotional, or economic - by having money. Keep in mind that security, like success, can be defined in many ways. If you focus less on how much your financial assets are worth, and more on what a creative and well-balanced individual you can be, security will take on a new meaning.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Emotional, Space, Creative

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• 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.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Dream, Numbers, Liquid

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “Peace on Earth”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body's state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards - indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general - is all happening because of the story that you tell.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Communication, Thinking

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Lou Holtz

  Ask Me, Asks, My Friendship

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• I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around.

  Jeffrey Gundlach

  Ideas, Analysis, Facts

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• We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, People, Suffering

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring" by Paul Hawken, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

  Michael Lewis

  Sea, Fishing, People

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Obamacare, Closing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Land, Democracy, Goods

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

  Thomas Piketty

  Country, Believe, Different

  "Inequality will worsen in America unless… Piketty’s Rx". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2014.

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