Quotes About Assets

is good to remember ourselves that it is our intangible assets – our family and friends, interests and passions – that are ultimately the greatest source of lifetime happiness.

Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.

John Wilbanks had prepared the will not long after the trial. It was straightforward and left the bulk of Pete's assets in a trust for Liza, with Wilbanks serving as the trustee, or controller. Pete's most valuable asset, his land, had already been deeded to Joel and Stella in equal shares, and this included their fine home.

lay in wait to ambush the corporate mouthpieces sent down to protect the treasured assets of Old Potomac Casualty. They tried to defend their actions by hiding behind the field reports, all of which clearly proved the damages in question were caused by water, not wind. One executive, startled by the ferocity of the attack by

Value investing was once the purchase of tangible assets at levels below their market value. Value investing today is buying sustainable competitive advantages at a good price.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. All financial innovation involves in one form or another, the creation of debt secured in greater or lesser adequacy by real assets.

What many don't know is that Arizona has a something called the State Land Trust - a fund with assets that have been set aside and invested for decades specifically to benefit education.

Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does any one know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. I shall even assume that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Because of that loyalty, and because of his history as an intelligence officer, she'd had him set up the shadow campaign staff—spies—to keep an eye on her opponent, Smalls. He'd also identified other possible assets: among them, Bob Tubbs.

Maybe his wealth was entirely in unpaid bills.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Forget about earnings. That's a priesthood of the accounting profession," he would preach, unrelentingly. "What you're really after is appreciating assets. You want to own as much of that asset as you can; then you want to finance it as efficiently as possible." 6 And above all else, make sure that the deals you do avoid as much in taxes as is legally possible.

Forget about earnings. That's a priesthood of the accounting profession," he would preach, unrelentingly. "What you're really after is appreciating assets. You want to own as much of that asset as you can; then you want to finance it as efficiently as possible." 6 And above all else, make sure that the deals you do avoid as much in taxes as is legally possible. And then some.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

Current assets are also referred to as the "working assets" of the business because they are in the cycle of cash going to buy inventory; Inventory is then sold to vendors and becomes Accounts Receivable. Accounts Receivable, when collected from the vendors, then turns back into Cash. Cash ? Inventory ? Accounts Receivable ? Cash. This cycle repeats itself over and over again, and it is how a business makes money.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.