Quotes About Allocation

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Diversify your investments.

I know where I'm putting my money.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.

You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.

If you don't know where to put your money, it will be gone.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

The circulation of money is like the sharing of cake. The one that holds the knife controls the portion you get.

We all have 1,440 minutes each day to accomplish everything on our schedule. We are accountable for prioritizing the decisions we make with our time.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

Never forget that the portfolio's the thing: Inevitably, it will contain poorly performing asset classes—there will always be at least one—but its identity will change from year to year.

Although you should not let your emotional responses dictate your allocation, you do need to sleep at night, and your personal preferences are an important part of your asset class structure.

But whatever allocation you settle on, the key is to stick with it through thick and thin, including rebalancing back to your target percentage on a regular basis.

When stocks perform poorly, in order to raise living expenses you will be selling bonds, since their allocation will rise. Just do not forget to replenish the bond bucket with the proceeds of stock sales and to also take your living expenses from the stock bucket as well when times are flush.