Tangible Assets Quotes

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Products are valued higher than services.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

In times of stress, it is easy to look to one's weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London's cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately, we end up right where we started when it's over. All we have is maybe a round of applause when we walk in a room - Hey, there's the champ! That's great; I want that, but I've got to have something tangible to show for it, too.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.

Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them.

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.