Top 100 Quotes About Equity
#1. I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.
Denis O'Hare
#2. The Prophet himself was a model of equity toward those who did not share his faith. Through
Tariq Ramadan
#3. Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#4. All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
Victor Cousin
#5. A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.
Stephen B. Shepard
#6. I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.
Michael Lewis
#8. I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'
Colman Domingo
#9. STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.
Romesh Wadhwani
#10. No form of gender equity can ever truly be achieved until we first work to empower femininity itself.
Julia Serano
#11. If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.
Jean Chatzky
#12. Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
Alex Berenson
#14. One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.
Blake Mycoskie
#15. nine categories of value ideas: Graham-style deep value, Greenblatt-style magic formula, small-cap value, sum-of-the-parts or hidden value, superinvestor favorites, jockey stocks, special situations, equity stubs, and international value investments.
John Mihaljevic
#16. You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
Barry Sternlicht
#17. Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
John Redwood
#18. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.
Mark Cuban
#19. Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
Deborah Eisenberg
#20. Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
Black Elk
#21. I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#22. What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
Barry Ritholtz
#23. A great leader acknowledges his or her finitude, and depends fully on the mighty powerful arm of strength of a Great God, to execute equity and justice for all.
Josephine Akhagbeme
#24. I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
Alexander Lebedev
#25. I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.
Stephen Pagliuca
#26. Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.
Jamie Dimon
#27. In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.
Maurice Saatchi
#28. Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.
Michael Keaton
#29. In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
Bob Diamond
#30. At $4 trillion, and roughly only $55 billion in equity, the Fed is leveraged about 77-to-1. They define the word leverage
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#31. The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
Jacques Delors
#32. Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb Colton
#33. The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
Jack Cade
#34. The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.
Alvaro Uribe
#35. No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#36. The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
Bill Gross
#38. Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
Bill Gross
#39. Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
Van Jones
#40. Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
Michel De Montaigne
#41. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
Marc Andreessen
#42. We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.
Stephen Pagliuca
#43. Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.
Paul Krugman
#44. War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Walter Millis
#45. If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.
Suze Orman
#46. All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#47. When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
Marc Faber
#48. Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
Blaise Pascal
#49. It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
Frederick Pollock
#50. In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity Ch.2, 8
John Locke
#51. We tend to think that God doesn't struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity
Sunday Adelaja
#52. 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
#53. Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
Anthony Trollope
#54. People who buy equity ETF shares in taxable accounts, such as a joint account or trust account, will find their tax bill may be slightly lower at the end of the year than if they had purchased the same amount in a comparable open-end index fund.
Richard Ferri
#55. I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.
Wilbur Ross
#56. I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#57. Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth,
increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.
Ban Ki-moon
#58. There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.
Nick Cooper
#60. Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
Jane Austen
#61. Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. Robert Hammer
#62. If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
Wayne Huizenga
#64. Cost does not equal value ... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
Tom Peters
#65. There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
#66. We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle.
Sebastian Pinera
#67. I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.
Sanjay Rawal
#68. Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it ... so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.
David Lloyd George
#69. Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,
George R R Martin
#70. When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
Charles Bowen
#71. What are we focused on? Return on equity. We don't need these great big tier one assets. I'm very happy with getting tier two, tier three assets; that's what Glencore has been good at.
Ivan Glasenberg
#72. The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
Daniel Hannan
#73. To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.
Owen Feltham
#74. Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.
Nick Murray
#76. We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.
Sam Altman
#77. Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Helen Clark
#78. I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.
Jon Oringer
#79. I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.
Jim Rogers
#80. Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
Jim Rogers
#81. Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.
Michael Lee-Chin
#82. I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
Bill Ackman
#83. We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#84. Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#85. If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
James Surowiecki
#86. E governance can bring minimum government and maximum governance. It is easy, effective and economic governance. It brings empowerment, equity and efficiency of the economy. It is a very useful field that can be the greatest problem solver of the people.
Narendra Modi
#87. It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.
David Tepper
#88. In serving the poor,
one serves humanity.
In serving mankind,
one serves equity.
In serving goodness,
one serves God.
In serving the Creator,
one serves himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#89. The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
Confucius
#90. It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.
David Rubenstein
#91. There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
N. Robert Hammer
#92. Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D.H. Lawrence
#93. It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
Baha'u'llah
#94. Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth. It speaks of honor and exactness. It speaks of righteousness. But, sadly, in today's world its application is often anything but noble, honorable, or righteous.
Lance B. Wickman
#95. Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.
Baha'u'llah
#96. Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.
Larry Hite
#97. Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
Jodi Picoult
#98. The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.
James Wolfensohn
#99. Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
Uday Kotak
#100. In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
Peter Lynch
