Quotes About Assets

Real estate investors can accelerate their wealth building much faster than with other assets, such as stocks, bonds, and tax-deferred retirement funds.

Our financial, tax, and legal systems are set up to reward property owners

Most of us don't realize that real estate investments allow our money to accelerate at a greater pace than typical paper investments.

To protect what you have worked for and all that you have, you must know how to limit liability.

If you have a business that is not operated as a limited liability entity, your personal assets and all of the assets of the business may be in jeopardy.

I have three superlative assets. (Four, really. But there is one I prefer not to go into at this time.) First, my legs. Looking at them objectively—as I often do—I consider them as good as any. They are outstanding right from the pelvic region to the toes. Thighs, knees (back and front), calves, ankles, feet, toes—all have been the subjects of spoken as well as unspoken praise.

Benjamin Graham, the author of Security Analysis, a classic guide to investing.

Armed with an awareness of how investors value intangibles,

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up.

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.

Chrysler's best assets were its Jeeps, minivans, and light trucks. Fiat's expertise was in small-car technology and fuel-efficient engines, the very thing that Chrysler lacked.

I own everything. I own my RV, my house, my trucks, my boat. Everything is paid for.

The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able to exchange anything we own and challenge existing trusted authorities and custodians that typically held the keys to accessing our assets or verifying their authenticity.

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

We have moved from treating funds as investment trusts designed to serve their owner-beneficiaries to treating funds as consumer products, designed to attract the largest possible assets. This new approach has ill-served the interests of fund shareholders.

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; "I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

Lease assets. Be sure to institute the lease versus buy analysis that was covered in the last section. A lease may carry a relatively high implicit interest rate, but has the particular advantage of deferring the payment of cash to later periods.

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.