People Assets Quotes

#1. The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.

William E. Conway Jr.

#2. It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

Helen Clark

#3. At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Vironika Tugaleva

#4. Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

Mohamed El-Erian

#5. It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

Ally Carter

#6. Countries don't go out of business ... The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don't go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.

Walter Wriston

#7. The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

Larry Bird

#8. In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

J. William Fulbright

#9. In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

Julian Assange

#10. In Germany anti-Uber feeling has nurtured a broader criticism of "Plattform-Kapitalismus"; its perceived readiness to reduce all aspects of people's lives, from spare rooms to spare time, to assets to be auctioned off is seen as deeply dehumanising.

Anonymous

#11. Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.

Roy Niederhoffer

#12. Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

Jacques Diouf

#13. A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

Warren Buffett

#14. I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

Boris Johnson

#15. People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Simon Spurr

#16. We have one asset, and that's people.

Sylvia Ostry

#17. We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.

Bernie Sanders

#18. EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

Jack Ma

#19. The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

Cornel West

#20. Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.

Narendra Modi

#21. The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.

Gerald Chertavian

#22. He possessed an unflinching belief that all people - the poor, children, the elderly - were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.

Arthur C. Brooks

#23. We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.

Liam Fox

#24. Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?

Shinzo Abe

#25. I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

Thomas Piketty

#26. More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

Akio Morita

#27. A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

Richard Branson

#28. We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

Jim Talent

#29. Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

Michael Lewis

#30. Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Bill Gates

#31. People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

Michael Hintze

#32. When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

Herve Falciani

#33. People are our greatest asset .

Dave Ulrich

#34. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

Nandan Nilekani

#35. Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people ... It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Carol S. Dweck

#36. The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.

George W. Bush

#37. [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

Anthony Bourdain

#38. It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

David Korten

#39. When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

Greg Ip

#40. There are three key assets in retail: real estate, inventory, and people.

Zeynep Ton

#41. Most people ... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

James A. Baldwin

#42. Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,

Robert Kiyosaki

#43. People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

Robert Kiyosaki

#44. Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

Susan Rice

#45. Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

Pat Mitchell

#46. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

Jane Fonda

#47. Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart.

Bryant McGill

#48. One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

Tim Armstrong

#49. Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II's name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor's assets and income were mostly non-declared.

James Morcan

#50. Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

Marcy Kaptur

#51. People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Peter Schiff

#52. Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

Alex Berenson

#53. A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

Reid Hoffman

#54. Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

Jim Wallis

#55. Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

Barack Obama

#56. The bigger worry for him is if Danish banks and pension funds lose faith in the peg and start to sell euro assets to hedge their currency risks. "It is more important for Danish authorities to convince people in Denmark that they keep the peg than foreign investors," he says.

Anonymous

#57. Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

#58. Some banks won't make it. Other banks - are gonna make sure that - we strengthen. All deposits are gonna be - safe for ordinary people. But we're gonna have to wring out some of these bad assets.

Barack Obama

#59. I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

Foster Friess