You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically.
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
In Italy, age is an asset.
My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.
The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.
Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money. . . and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.
In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.
The primary asset of any business is its organization.
We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.
My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.
You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.
Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships.