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• Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

  James Dale Davidson

  Gold, Coins, Silver

  James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (1994). “The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Agreement, Balance, Letters

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• Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.

  Noel Whittaker

  Winning, Games, Becoming

  Noel Whittaker (2011). “Making Money Made Simple”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

  Noel Whittaker

  Retirement, Home, House

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• I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Falling In Love, Love You, Creativity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Zero, Average, Class

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Income, Deflation

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

  Annie Leonard

  Facts, Sides, Needs

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• I built an unbelievable company. Some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, real estate assets anywhere in the world, beyond the United States, in Europe, lots of different places. It's an unbelievable company.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Europe, United States

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Spirit is the most valuable asset, more than money and any other power.

  Zig Ziglar

  Spirit, Valuable

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• A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

  Richard Branson

  People, Employee, Company

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• The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

  Warren Buffett

  Self, People, Important

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• Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Class, People

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• Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.

  Max De Pree

  Leader, Legacy, Should

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

  Daniel Goleman

  Attention, Littles, Underrated

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• Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

  Mark Cuban

  Use, May, Realizing

  "MARK CUBAN: DON'T Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort". www.businessinsider.com. March 18, 2012.

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge Workers, Century, Institutions

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

  Robin Sharma

  Ego, Ordinary, Crafts

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• Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

  Mark Cuban

  Valuable

  "MARK CUBAN: DON'T Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort". www.businessinsider.com. March 18, 2012.

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• The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

  Warren Buffett

  Self, Degrees, Want

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.175, John Wiley & Sons

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• As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

  David Alan Grier

  Sense Of Humor

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• Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Long, Praise

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• Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Exercise, Zest, Giving

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• Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.

  Harry Browne

  Taken, Rights, Government

  Harry Browne (2000). “The Great Libertarian Offer”, Liam Works

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