Quotes About Asset

The first is asset allocation: What assets are you going to hold in your portfolio? And in which proportions are you going to hold them? The second is market timing. Are you going to try to bet on whether one asset class is going to perform better in the short run relative to the other asset classes you hold?

Tony, by having a fifty-fifty portfolio, you really have more like ninety-five percent of your risk in stocks!

And the reason people get screwed is that by the time they hear that the stock market (or gold, or the real estate market, or commodities, or any other type of investment) is a great place to go, very often the bubble is just about to end. So you need to put in place a system to make sure you don't get seduced into putting too much of your money in any one market or asset class or too much in your Risk/Growth Bucket.

One of your rules for diversification is to never have anything weighted more than 30%, is that correct? DS: Yes.

Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.

Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

Emotional intelligence is a rich and valuable asset in physical reality, being the determining key for spiritual development.

If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.

My fans tell me my height is my biggest asset.

Moreover, stable prices foster saving and capital formation, because when the risk of erosion of asset values resulting from inflation—and the need to guard against such losses—are minimized, households are encouraged to save more and businesses are encouraged to invest more. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 2009)

It's a tremendous asset if you have a visual eye because you can make huge visual statements in a very theatrical way and play to the strength of theatre. But the high end of directing is working with actors and making the acting the best it can be.

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.

Authors can always be relied on to turn up late to their own launch party and then say embarrassing things, but they are a strangely valuable asset when it comes to promoting a publication. Their death, I find, is what adds most value to a book. I'm surprised publishers don't use the technique more often.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.