Quotes About Assets

My day job, running a fund management company, means I know that I and my team can't afford not to read every word of every document about assets or markets we propose to invest in, and to be absolutely clear we are complying with all the legal and regulatory requirements involved.

We keep our reserves both in dollars and in Euros mostly.

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

Do not go out first thing after signing a contract and buy assets that are huge compared to the contract signed. Just because you have money for the first time doesn't mean you have to spend it before you know all the ramifications of buying the assets.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Cash is not cheap. The physical infrastructure is not easy to maintain and cheap.

Insurance companies don't make anything.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It's cheaper in the long run.

For when a farmer borrows fifty francs to buy a plow, it is not actually the fifty francs that is lent to him; it is the plow. And when a merchant borrows twenty thousand francs to buy a house, it is not the twenty thousand francs he owes; it is the house.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

I have too much money invested in sweaters.

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.

We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

Digital assets, including bitcoin, could save small businesses substantial transaction fees and provide an added layer of security to their payment processing.

Space enables a higher degree of transparency, it's hard to hide from space-based assets.

The Supreme Court's non-transparent attitude on the disclosure of assets is in line with the judiciary's steadfast refusal to allow any transparency in the matter of appointment of judges, or for that matter, in the judiciary as a whole.

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

It's not hard to generate a paper fortune in a huge inflation. All you have to do is own the most important economic assets: energy, communication, and transportation.

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.