Asset Distribution Quotes

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.

I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.

You must keep the wealth of the country scattered, and you must limit the amount that any one man can own.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

7 percent of inheritors get two-thirds of all the wealth transfers..

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.

If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.

Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.