Top 100 Asset Quotes

#1. What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.

Nouriel Roubini

#2. Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Brian Behlendorf

#3. Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

Helen Gurley Brown

#4. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.

Ilchi Lee

#5. In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

Stella Oladiran

#6. The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

Alan Plater

#7. This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

David Ignatius

#8. People are our greatest asset .

Dave Ulrich

#9. Knowledge is the ability to obtain, process and use information, so that it benefits you as an asset and not a liability

Kloby

#10. I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?

Janeane Garofalo

#11. We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#12. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Henry Chester

#13. Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.

Uzoma Nnadi

#14. Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset - time - to what is most meaningful to you.

Randy Komisar

#15. Not every company went bankrupt. Not every bank needed TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program]. So I'm very proud that JPMorgan, throughout that time period, was completely steadfast. We bought Bear Stearns because we thought we were helping the situation. We didn't cut and run.

Jamie Dimon

#16. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.

Brian Ulrich

#17. When man learns that man is man's greatest asset he will serve his fellowman instead of killing him as he does now for material values.

Lao Russell

#18. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Mae West

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

Eric Kierans

#20. 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.

Stephen Covey

#21. I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.

Sandy Adams

#22. Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Harvey MacKay

#23. When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

George Soros

#24. By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

Margaret Bourke-White

#25. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.

Farshad Asl

#26. The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.

Ben Feldman

#27. Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.

Norman Finkelstein

#28. There is no such thing as a riskless asset. The reason an asset pays a return is that it carries risk.

Michael Lewis

#29. The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

Billy Zane

#30. Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

Warren Buffett

#31. I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

Yoshihiko Noda

#32. Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#34. Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

Howard Warren Buffett

#35. The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset ... your people.

Don Farrell

#36. Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly ...

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#37. Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.

Judith Chambers

#38. You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Charlie Munger

#39. seeing something different as a problem instead of seeing it as an asset.

David Niven

#40. I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

Salma Hayek

#41. After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Maurice Strong

#42. The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

David Platt

#43. My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#44. New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing.

Tom Piazza

#45. Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.

Ben Bernanke

#46. Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?

Keith K. Hilbig

#47. My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.

William Westmoreland

#48. The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

Margaret Chan

#49. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Dolly Parton

#50. Talent is a wonderful asset to have but it has no time for procrastinators.

David Seller

#51. We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

Alan Greenspan

#52. Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

Wendy Kopp

#53. One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

Dalai Lama

#54. I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

Harold Wilson

#55. I'm required to do every job well enough that I'd use it as evidence in court - that doesn't come cheaply! Property is a critical asset for individuals. Maintaining the cadastre (legal survey fabric) is an important job and a valuable service.

Mark Mason

#56. In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

Herbert Butterfield

#57. Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.

Sarah Thornton

#58. When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

Beau Willimon

#59. Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#60. The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it and did what he could in his clumsy way to keep his happy Children of the Garden from acquiring it.

Mark Twain

#61. Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.

Napoleon Hill

#62. I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

Bette Midler

#63. Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

#64. Immigration is America's No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can't do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want.

Grover Norquist

#65. In international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Henry Kissinger

#66. On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

Roger G. Ibbotson

#67. We women were facing up to life with our own our bodies as our only asset. We may not have smelled like roses, but we got to learn all about life and freedom in our own way. (Kang 1989: 11)

Kang Sok-Kyong

#68. Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Harry Lorayne

#69. The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.

Jim Loehr

#70. If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don't waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.

Greg Plitt

#71. People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

Don King

#72. The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

Warren Buffett

#73. Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

Bill Gross

#74. I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#75. The primary asset of any business is its organization.

William Feather

#76. My body is my greatest asset.

Kari Wuhrer

#77. Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

#78. The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

Li Yuanchao

#79. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#80. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation.")

Mebane T. Faber

#81. -You think I've got a big ego and an attitude problem?
-I don't think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it's a Fuentes flaw.
-I'd call it an asset. It's what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible.
Carlos and Brittany

Simone Elkeles

#82. How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Oskar Kokoschka

#83. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Natalie Portman

#84. Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

Wole Soyinka

#85. Everything in war hinges on what you know of your adversary's skills and asset.

Marie Rutkoski

#86. Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Duke Ellington

#87. the greatest asset one may be able to possess is a great mind

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#88. Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president.

Monica Crowley

#89. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

Andrew Griffin

#90. Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

John C. Maxwell

#91. 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 C. Sorensen

#92. A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Maimonides

#93. People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard ... You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.

Roger Swain

#94. Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset

Toni Morrison

#95. The women I'm attracted to have to know their worth. That measurement can only be weighed from the inside, and when that's taken into account and she truly appreciates it? Everything on the outside of her becomes an asset.

Riley Murphy

#96. In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#97. When you live among piranhas, you find truth and goodness an asset.

Lisa Carlisle

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

David Alan Grier

#99. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#100. , I don't think you would just be treated like a member ofan agency. You'd be treated like an asset. And assets don't get to have lives.

Maureen Johnson

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