Securitized Assets Quotes

Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II's name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor's assets and income were mostly non-declared. ~ James Morcan

No. It is not acceptable that the 6 largest financial institutions in this country have assets of almost 10 trillion dollars, and issue half of the mortgages and two-thirds of the credit cards. That is too much wealth and power in the hands of a few. If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today he'd tell us to 'break them up.' And he'd be right. These huge banks must be broken up. ~ Bernie Sanders

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund. ~ Martin J. Whitman

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset
the comedians themselves. ~ Richard Pryor

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It's the assets you have to worry about. ~ Charlie Munger

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The main premise of appreciative inquiry is that positive questions, focusing on strengths and assets, tend to yield more effective results than negative questions focusing on problems or deficits. ~ Warren Berger

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings. ~ Walter Schloss

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use. ~ Eric Maskin

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year. ~ Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another. ~ Milton Friedman

Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Who needed Prozac when a girl could get Pillsbury without a prescription?" ~Allie Shelby, Personal Assets ~ Kelsey Browning

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart? ~ Nicholas Sparks

The art of creating value from intangible assets (Liebowitz 1999; Nonaka ~ Anonymous

The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services. ~ David F. Swensen

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power. ~ Mikhail Prokhorov

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ~ Maurice Strong

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork. ~ Vince Lombardi

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be ~ Warren Buffett

Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP. ~ Niall Ferguson

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. ~ Mitt Romney

Drug-war forfeiture laws are frequently used to allow those with assets to buy their freedom, while drug users and small-time dealers with few assets to trade are subjected to lengthy prison terms. ~ Michelle Alexander

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables. ~ Dale T. Mortensen

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money. ~ Bill Gross

In the 1920s, he decided that it was cheaper to drill for oil than to buy the overvalued shares of other oil companies. After the 1929 stock market crash, he completely changed tack; he saw that oil shares were selling at a great discount to assets, and he turned to prospecting for oil on the floor of the stock exchange - in ~ Daniel Yergin

All of your so-called faults, all the things which you don't like about yourself are your greatest assets," she said. "They are simply overamplified. The volume has been turned up a bit too much, that's all. Just turn down the volume a little. Soon, you - and everyone else - will see your weaknesses as your strengths, your 'negatives' as your 'positives.' They will become wonderful tools, ready to work for you rather than against you. All you have to do is learn to call on these personality traits in amounts that are appropriate to the moment. Judge how much of your wonderful qualities are needed, and don't give any more than that. ~ Debbie Ford

Two of the things to look out for are that operational cash flows should match or be close to profit levels, and current assets should exceed current liabilities. ~ Matthew Kidman

Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage. ~ Michael Horton

A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully. ~ John Allen Fraser

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people. ~ Cornel West

Every now and then, we change our minds. It's our prerogative. The big secret is" - I leaned in conspiratorially - "sometimes, even we don't know why. There are times after we pick a fight where we're as confused as you are. But there's no way we're admitting it." I shrugged a shoulder, "That's why we have boobs."
Jake's eyebrows shot up.
"See, after we've acted crazy, and the guy's wondering what he's doing with us, we use them to mesmerize him, so he forgets that we're crazy." I shot Jake my most seductive smile and leaned the assets in question against his arm. "And by the way, if you look at my cleavage right now, even though I'm the one talking about it, I'll accuse you of not caring about what I saw and of just treating me like an object."
Jake swallowed hard, keeping eye contact with me, though I could tell he was fighting his impulse to look down. A mischievous glint flickered through his eyes. "And treating you like an object would be bad? ~ Cindi Madsen

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away. ~ Mason Cooley

To mitigate complications and aid in the procedure of devolution of assets after death, a 'will' has to be well planned and drafted. ~ Henrietta Newton Martin

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth. ~ Jim Rohn

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House. ~ Walter E. Williams

It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company. ~ Jonathan Grayer

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets. ~ Anshu Jain