Quotes About Allocation

For the amount of real capital at any moment (as distinguished from monetary tokens run off on a printing press) is limited. What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Únicamente el vilipendiado mecanismo de los precios es capaz de resolver el problema enormemente complicado de decidir con precisión, entre los miles de mercancías y servicios diferentes, qué cantidad y en qué proporción deben producirse.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country's requirements. If priority is allocated to a manned space programme, I'm confident we can swing it. But it's going to be tremendously expensive - the infrastructure and so on.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

The particular Soviet state form of capitalism was more or less replicated in other "socialist" countries. In them, state officials centrally appropriated the surpluses produced by industrial workers as per the classic definition of capitalist exploitation. Moreover, state administrative (command) allocation replaced markets, and state ownership replaced private ownership of industries' means of production (other than labor power)

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

You only have so much time in a day.

These very sad stories make all too clear the cardinal rule of investing: Broad diversification is essential.

Protect yourself: Every investor should always diversify.

Diversify across securities, across asset classes, across markets—and across time.

You should diversify over time. Don't make all your investments at a single time. If

Rebalancing will not always increase returns. But it will always reduce the riskiness of the portfolio and it will always ensure that your actual allocation stays consistent with the right allocation for your needs and temperament.

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

Where is the invisible hand? "It is often invisible because it is not here," according to economist Joseph Stiglitz.

LLC profits and losses flow through the entity and may be freely allocated without regard to ownership percentages.

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere.

For the meal itself, those serving are split up into nineteen groups,

It's always better for a ruler to determine who eats than it is to have a larger pie from which the people can feed themselves.

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

You give the money where you want it.

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.