Quotes About Assets

By now you might be wondering what's the point of investing in a stodgy old company such as IBM, GM, or U.S. Steel? There are several reasons you might do this. First, big companies are less risky, in that they generally are in no danger of going out of business. Second, they are likely to pay a dividend. Third, they have valuable assets that might be sold off at a profit.

The old Wall Street adage never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs may apply to racehorses, but it's mlarkey when it comes to houses.

technological breakthroughs, such as the Internet, have made international communications not just possible but commonplace. However, for most Americans, these international conversations are viable only if the other side speaks English. In this new international era, Americans find themselves locked in a monolingual society. How strange that, instead of viewing those who speak other languages as welcome assets to our nation, some seem eager to erase linguistic diversity.

There's got to be at least some contact if they aren't going to lose their assets simply because someone dies before she gets around to telling her son or daughter Oh, by the way. We're actually secret agents for the Mesan Alignment. Here's your secret decoder kit. Be ready to be contacted by the Galactic Evil Overlord on Frequency X with orders to betray the society you've been raised all your life to think of as your own.

Timpul este singurul capital al oamenilor care n-au alt? avere decât inteligen?a.

Risk arises as investor behaviour alters the market. Investors bid up assets, accelerating into the present appreciation that otherwise would have occurred in the future, and thus lowering prospective returns. The ultimate irony lies in the fact that the reward for taking incremental risk shrinks as more people move to take it.

This paradox exists because most investors think quality, as opposed to price, is the determinant of whether something's risky. But high quality assets can be risky, and low quality assets can be safe. It's just a matter of the price paid for them...Elevated popular opinion, then, isn't just the source of low return potential, but also of high risk.

It does not require an economist to realise that a nation's wealth lies in the wealth of her citizens. Moneyed people are an asset to a nation, paupers are a liability. Take a man with an income of ten thousand a year, he is a valuable asset. The State can depend upon him for a definite yearly income. Then the man dies and the property—instead of passing to his son and continuing to yield the same yearly income to the State—has to be broken up and sold to pay death duties.

Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.

Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

The balance sheet is made up of assets, liabilities, and equity. The P&L statement includes income, cost of sales, and expenses.

Public companies, which sell stock on the open market, must file a series of reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each year if they have at least 500 investors or at least $10 million in assets. Smaller companies that have incorporated and sold stock must report to the state in which they incorporated, but they aren't required to file with the SEC. You can find more details about the SEC's reporting requirements for public companies in Chapters 3 and 19.

assets = liabilities + owner's equity or

owner's equity (net worth) = assets - liabilities Basically,

Plan B," I said. "Okay, right. We need a plan B. If we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something." Susan let out a puff of laughter, and then I turned to her, my eyes alight. "We have a great big truck," Susan said. "Then why didn't you list that among our assets?" I said, in a bad British accent. "Go!" Susan vanished back down the

Life is to short to contradict our personal weakness, crib about our assets and shed tears for things we can't change.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

In my judgment, and I am not alone in this, false believers constitute a majority of church members today, most likely a very large majority. For this same reason, non-Christians are in control of church assets, creeds, policies, and programs.

At forty-four, though bitter, she was nonetheless grateful that she hadn't been rendered penniless. Having clawed her way to the top once before, she'd been left with just enough assets to start the climb again. This time she would not make the mistake that had led to her ruin; she would not marry.

Life insurance proceeds and the sale of two houses

I understand assets. My arm is an asset, and I need to take care of it.

I have great assets and so I have the confidence to flaunt them.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.