Equity Quotes - Page 3

• Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Regret, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 03, 2015

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• The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.

  Michael Hudson

  Loss, People, House

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Gratitude, Men, Giving

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• Comandante Fidel Castro sent his people there into Africa, in the Caribbean; they died right alongside of others who were seeking the blessing of justice and freedom and equity. What other man do you know who did such a thing?

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Blessing, Justice

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Credit, Debt

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• Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Justice, Court

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• One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Information, Use

  "The Road Ahead". Book by Book by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson, 1995.

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• I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  George Cheyne

  Animal, Practice, Differences

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• Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.

  Frederick Romilly

  Party, Sleep, Rights

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• A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

  David Bonderman

  Would Be, Portugal, Default

  "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". SuperReturn conference in Berlin, www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.

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• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Shooting, Suits, Kind

  "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

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• Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

  Austin Ligon

  Guy, May, Mediocrity

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• Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

  Michael Keaton

  Names, Two, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Real, Vices, Unjust

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• I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

  Ehud Barak

  Venture, Lectures, Finance

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• People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

  Arthur Bloch

  Money, People, Pay

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Home, Long, Demand

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• In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Commitment, Successful

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

  African Spir

  Demand, Crime, Interest

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

  Mary Cunningham, Mary Cunningham Agee, Fran Schumer (1984). “Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix”, Simon & Schuster

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• Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Hands

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

  Bill Gross

  Return, Expenses, Company

  "In His Best Letter In A Long Time, Bill Gross Explains Why Stocks Are Going To Be Horrible Investments" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me.

  Todd Lowe

  Girl, Jobs, Giving

  "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.

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• The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

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