- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Allocating Quotes
On capital, markets, and the strategy of allocating resources.
These allocating quotes focus on finance and leadership, including a nod to Warren Buffett's view that a CEO's core job is allocating capital across businesses to boost returns, a theme that pairs with our best quotes collection.
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- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating capital across businesses and boosting returns on that capital is a critical yet poorly recognized one.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
- Extinction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
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- Nov 07, 2020