Assets Quotes - Page 30

We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.

Sylvia Earle

Ocean, Years, Ideas

Source: www.spiegel.de

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Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.

James Franco

Reflection, Thinking, People

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Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

Eric Kierans

Moving, Citizenship, Form

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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Mark Twain

Country, Usa, People

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My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

Donald Trump

Father, Thinking, America

First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Haruki Murakami

Running, Hurt, Inspirational Life

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In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

Dan Miller

Creativity, May, Today

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You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

James Mangold

Jobs, Team, Player

Source: collider.com

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There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at another it's a hold, and at another it's a sell.

Seth Klarman

Matter, Company, Sells

"Jason Zweig Interviews Seth Klarman At CFA Institute Annual Conference". Interview with Jason Zweig, www.gurufocus.com. July 15, 2010.

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It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

Michael Burry

Believe, Hindsight, Bubbles

"Betting On The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis, www.vanityfair.com. April 2010.

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I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once again, the secret to success in following the formula strategy is patience, a quality in short supply for both professionals and individual investors alike. I think investors should have a large portion of their assets in equities over time.

Joel Greenblatt

Believe, Thinking, Should Have

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Flexible approach - will look at ALL asset classes.

Seth Klarman

Class, Looks, Approach

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When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.

Seth Klarman

Creating, Dangerous Situations, Government

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One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

Daniel Cormier

Mma, Focus, Weakness

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Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny days and are almost never stress-tested for stormy weather. Securitization is an area that almost perfectly fits this description; markets for securitized assets such as subprime mortgages completely collapsed in 2008 and have not fully recovered. Ironically, the government is eager to restore the securitization markets back to their pre-collapse stature.

Seth Klarman

Stress, Government, Weather

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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

Theodore Roosevelt

Effectiveness, National Parks, Administration

Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.300, Cambria Press

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When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

Barack Obama

Fall, Night, People

Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013

Janet Yellen

Two, Financial, Wealth

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Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

Abdul Kalam

Everyday, Cash, Pondering

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Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Moving, Touching, Mind

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After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

Robert Kennedy

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Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

Seth Klarman

Government, Swings, Fickle

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Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.

Charlie Munger

Thinking, Long, Black

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Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.

Charlie Munger

Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Ideas, People, Television

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