Top 100 Asset Quotes
#1. Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
Bob Brookmeyer
#2. A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.
Nancy Kline
#3. The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be
Warren Buffett
#4. A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.
Li Ka-shing
#5. With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
Oprah Winfrey
#6. Confidence is your most powerful asset; knowledge is your most powerful weapon.
Marissa Carmel
#7. You can never let the market quote turn from an asset to a liability. Graham
Jeremy Miller
#8. No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
Barry Ritholtz
#9. People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
#10. For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Countee Cullen
#11. It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.
Robert F. Young
#12. Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
Guy Browning
#13. I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing.
Gordon Brown
#14. A fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
Rae Foley
#15. When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
Neil Abercrombie
#16. What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
Andrew Young
#17. Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
Isaac Asimov
#18. And he'll indulge you, because he's making an investment in you. You're an asset to him. You're beautiful, well bred and well connected, and independently wealthy. You're also in love with him and he can't take his eyes off you. I bet he can't keep his hands off you, either.
Sylvia Day
#19. We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities.
James O'Shaughnessy
#20. Bring Your Greatest Asset to the Date. Respect Your Time and Theirs as a Gift.
Michelle Terrell
#22. 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
#23. Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.
Nelson Mandela
#24. Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.
Ben Bernanke
#25. Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut - spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.
Joel Greenblatt
#26. I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If I'm not shooting well, I'll try to be an asset in other ways-like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle.
Rick Barry
#27. Flexible approach - will look at ALL asset classes.
Seth Klarman
#28. We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.
Mary Schapiro
#29. 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
#30. Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
Henry Winkler
#31. Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.
Jeff Weiner
#32. There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Eric Schmidt
#33. As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.
Timothy Geithner
#34. The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
Elliot Richardson
#36. I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
Ashley Judd
#38. You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place. That's a very difficult way to live, but it also has served me. It's been an asset as well as a liability.
Audre Lorde
#39. A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker
#40. A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.
Eula Biss
#41. So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie
#42. I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
Vicente Fox
#43. A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.
Dolly Parton
#44. I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset by far. Then follow your passion; you want to be really excited to get out of bed every morning.
Warren Buffett
#45. The inferior put others down;
the superior lift others up;
the great are an asset to themselves and the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. Yellen's comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.
Carl Icahn
#47. Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#48. Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.
Anca Iovita
#49. I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
Ray Dalio
#50. Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy
#52. Often it's when you come in contact with challenges other people find hard but you find easy that you know you're in possession of a valuable soft asset.3
Reid Hoffman
#53. If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
#54. In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.
Chris Guillebeau
#55. I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
Josh Gad
#56. Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.
Twiggy
#57. will capitalize on this difference for it is an asset to be promoted to the fullest.
Og Mandino
#58. What you don't know can be your greatest asset
Sara Blakely
#59. My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
Imogen Heap
#60. As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.
Richard Price
#61. Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?
Ryan Lilly
#62. Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers
Juan Somavia
#63. Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
Simon Van Der Meer
#64. I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset.
Riz Ahmed
#65. The greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.
Nikki Rowe
#66. I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#67. All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.
Maxine Powell
#68. Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
Brian Tracy
#69. If
you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if
you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the
object is going to do, and that's not our game.
Warren Buffett
#70. Perhaps because they were so enamored of the official rules of finance, the Germans proved especially vulnerable to a false idea the rules encouraged: that there is such a thing as a riskless asset.
Michael Lewis
#71. Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
James C. Collins
#72. Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.
Voltaire
#73. You may wish to spend a moment thinking about whether this person is an asset or a liability to your company
G.R. Reader
#74. My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
Mamie Van Doren
#75. Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
Lisa Graff
#76. Don't just live, but live for a purpose bigger than yourself. Be an asset to your family, community, and country.
Mark Owen
#77. My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
Jane Fonda
#78. Pride is a ridiculous thing, but when you're in desperate straits and it's all you have left, it becomes your most valuable asset.
Manel Loureiro
#79. A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.
Robert Kiyosaki
#80. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
Aga Khan IV
#82. (Theodore) Roosevelt considered his experience with 'fellow ranchmen on what was then the frontier' to be 'the most educational asset' of his entire life, instrumental to his success in becoming president.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#83. Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.
Warren Buffett
#85. If you don't feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset's future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn't necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.
Warren Buffett
#86. Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift.
Angelica Hopes
#87. Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).
Robert Reischauer
#88. Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
Brad Holland
#89. Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#90. I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
Evelyn Glennie
#91. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset.
Gerald R. Ford
#92. Asset-light industries are attractive since they require less capital to be deployed in order to generate sales growth. The finest examples are franchise operations, such as Domino's Pizza, where growth is funded by franchisees rather than by the company. Other
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#93. Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates.
Len Fisher
#94. Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
Daniel Goleman
#95. The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy.
Stephen S. Roach
#96. Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#97. The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
George Foreman
#98. It struck me that my backside was my best asset and that keeping it hidden would be like Oedipus pulling out his eyes so that he couldn't see the errors of the past.
Chloe Thurlow
#99. By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users.
Jon Oringer
#100. Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
Robert Runcie
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