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No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liability. That is also true for a country. -- Joseph Stiglitz
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities. -- Ambrose Bierce
Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is. -- Hale Irwin
Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors will own the shares of technology companies. Many also shun commercial banks, which they consider to have unanalyzable assets, as well as property and casualty insurance companies, which have both unanalyzable assets and liabilities. -- Seth Klarman
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
Liabilities are just assets in hiding. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It's the assets you have to worry about. -- Charlie Munger
Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets, -- Robert Kiyosaki
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. -- James A. Baldwin

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