Employees are far more likely to
be productive assets to your company if they feel that they are treated fairly.
A business
is a productive asset — like a machine, or a farm (or in terms of the property example, a rental property).
Real estate, in this way,
is a productive asset.
Gold mines
are productive assets, but their prices had been inflated.
If written in an appealing and appropriate manner, it will grab the reader's attention and convince him that the person applying will
be a productive asset for his organization.
Not exact matches
However, if you offer them a
productive environment a short bus ride / cycle / drive from their house, you'll find it
's a great
asset in retaining your best staff!
That
's because patent trolls, unlike
productive companies,
are just shells without real
assets or business operations, meaning they
're not vulnerable to counterclaims in a patent case.
My own preference — and you knew this
was coming —
is our third category: investment in
productive assets, whether businesses, farms, or real estate.
Unlike
productive assets such as businesses or farmland, gold
is «purchased in the buyer's hope that someone else... will pay more for them in the future,» declares Warren Buffett in an adaptation from his latest shareholder newsletter.
If Chinese investment
is on the whole
productive, and the value of
assets is growing as fast as the value of debt, then we can assume that current growth rates
are not driven mainly by excessive debt and that Chinese growth
is sustainable without the need to bring down investment growth.
Building wealth
is a process that involves spending less than you earn, taking the surplus and accumulating
productive assets that throw off passive income, and then expanding that
asset base until your passive income can provide you with the lifestyle you desire.
The report also analyzes how the better farmers
are subsidizing the less -
productive ones, and how the whole system costs several hundred million dollars a year in debt servicing costs, capital that could
be better used to fund tangible and
productive assets.
The focus on EVA helps ensure executives continue to
be good stewards of capital and as SMP states, «EVA recognizes the
productive use of capital
assets and, therefore, wise, responsible decision - making regarding capital investments.»
«Leaving the question of price aside, the best business to own
is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of free — other peoples money — in highly
productive assets so that return on owners capital becomes exceptional.»
Our country's founding fathers noted that broad - based ownership of
productive assets is essential to a working democracy.»
Whenever capital
assets reach the end of their
productive lives, they should
be replaced with energy efficient and low - carbon alternatives wherever possible and prudent.
But now what starts to happen
is you really get stagnant and falling standards of living because savings, which
are typically in a capitalist system, invested into
productive assets is what in fact improves your standard of living.
For one thing, it suggests that
productive capacity in these countries will wane; real estate, stocks, and other financial
assets will increasingly
be sold or exchanged for safer alternatives; and social costs will rise, whether they
are affordable or not.
Their Colorado
assets are among the most
productive in U.S. onshore drilling, showing some of the best full cycle cash - on - cash returns in the E&P industry.
And I
'm talking about real profits which
are coming from
productive assets that
are creating new profits which
is new collateral, new value that underpins our society.
Environmental water
is a highly practical way of protecting and restoring valuable environmental
assets that exist in a highly
productive irrigated agriculture and urban and rural communities.
I think it
's safe to say he
's a pretty peculiar guy, yet a big
asset to a Heat team that lacks
productive bigs.
While I
'm fond of making fun of the Dee Gordon trade, he
's a serious
asset if he does exactly what he did last year, and there
's enough talent in the lineup to have a hitter like Marcell Ozuna hitting sixth, which
is where he should
be in a
productive lineup.
The usual
productive fervor of their manager, which
is so often one of their greatest
assets, for once cost the Borussians, leaving them with an uphill battle in what many
are calling the Group of Death.
While a focus on the distribution of income
is essential, republican economics
is likely to draw attention to the underlying distribution of
productive and financial
assets and to the relations under which these
assets are controlled and deployed.
«The fundamental mission behind our Worldview enterprise
is to foster a
productive, meaningful dialogue on the ways in which nations can best leverage their
assets for the betterment of their life science and biotechnology sectors» observes Jeremy Abbate, Director of Global Media Solutions, Scientific American.
One year after the end of the intervention, 36 months after the
productive asset transfer, 8 out of 10 indices still showed statistically significant gains, and there
was very little or no decline in the impact of the program on the key variables (consumption, household
assets, and food security).
A «
productive asset,» that
is, a way to make a living (livestock, beehives to make honey or supplies to start a simple store).
While you may have to discuss logistics about joint
assets or your children, you don't have to engage in any tangents or respond to any comments that aren't
productive.
Shari Albright, former chief operating officer of the Asia Society's International Studies Schools Network, now the Norine R. Murchison Professor of Practice and Chair of the Department of Education at Trinity University, says finding community
assets is often surprisingly
productive.
The Foundation regards diversity as an
asset for building a strong and
productive society, and we
are committed to building early childhood programs that value, support, and embrace the culture and diversity of young children's families and communities.
The trouble with all of this
is that we
are bailing out less
productive assets, and taxing more
productive assets to do so.
I can understand how investing cash flow could
be affected by the «Financing Cash Flow Items» (you need to attain more liabilities to purchase more
productive assets).
Small - cap value stocks historically have
been the most
productive of all major U.S.
asset classes.
Does that mean it
's time to get rid of these two previously
productive equity
asset classes?
If you
are putting money into real estate hoping to make money from price increases, you aren't treating real estate as a
productive asset, but instead as a speculative
asset.
If you aren't expecting to make money from price increases, but
are instead expecting to make money from rent or other value produced, then you
are treating it as a
productive asset.
My own preference — and you knew this
was coming —
is our third category: investment in
productive assets, whether businesses, farms, or real estate.
Debt can
be seductive, but as you approach retirement it
's critical to only borrow for
productive purposes like buying a home or other appreciating
asset.
Productive assets, in general, have prices that
are largely based on their ability to produce income.
This may well
be keeping investors from making the most
productive use of their
assets.
Could anyone really believe the earth
was going to swallow up the incredible
productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?
For instance, if your income
is expected to grow strongly, using debt to purchase
assets that will enable that growth, or increase it, can
be productive.
For the average person, the easiest way to do this
is by owning pieces of hundreds of businesses via a low - cost index fund, a
productive asset that Buffett recommends for 99 percent of investors, including LeBron James on CNBC a couple of weeks ago.
Small - cap value stocks historically have
been the most
productive of all major U.S.
asset classes, and they boost the compound return of Portfolio 4 to 10.3 %, enough to turn that initial $ 100,000 investment into just shy of $ 10.1 million.
After all, if everyone had perfect foresight, there would
be no ambiguity about the value of any
productive asset.
The energy sector has a lot of MLP (master limited partnerships) with
productive but depreciated
assets, so it
's perhaps not unreasonable that the depreciation
is on the books?
This assumes that cash
is not a
productive asset - that earnings
are a product of the other
assets only.
In reality the liquidation value of
assets (even financial
assets)
is very different from their historical cost, or their market value, or the present value of their
productive use.
I agree that we have no way of knowing the «perfect»
asset allocation and that arguments about small optimizations in portfolio weights
are not
productive.