Best Depreciation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's bitterly ironic that we place astronomical value on the increasing age of inanimate paintings, antiques, cars, wines and memorabilia while failing to appreciate and adequately compensate the priceless life experience and wisdom that comes with human maturity.”

Author:Steven Magee

“Someone who undervalues himself eventually will blame others for his depreciation.”

Value Depreciation Value Esteem

Book:Trust

Source: Trust

“The dollar today will be worth ten cents a decade from now.”

Money Worth Worthless Inflation Dollar Depreciation Hyperinflation A Decade From Now Ten Cents The Dollar Today

Author:Steven Magee

“Having savings is an old-fashioned idea from a past era of low inflation and high bank interest rates.”

Money Old Fashioned Inflation Savings Idea Bank Interest Rates Depreciation Low Inflation Past Era

Author:Steven Magee

“Saving money in a bank account is how you lose money.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle.”

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Author:Lana M. H. Wilder

“While appreciating others for your success, you grow in others whereas while depreciating others for your failures, others grow in you”

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Author:P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.”

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Book:The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.”

Force Higher Dollars Sanity Continuing Inflation Treasury Creditors Rationale Depreciation

Author:Bill Gross

“The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.”

Evil Christianity Indifference Infidelity Insidious Depreciation

Author:Richard Whately

“The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.”

Men Self Accepting Modesty Inclination Depreciation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.”

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Author:Joel Achenbach

“The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.”

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Author:James Lileks

“There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing.”

Two Type Japan Currency Depreciation

Author:Jamie Dimon

“A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.”

“Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made of particle board, vinyl siding, and stapled-on trim. A lot of suburbia will simply become the slums of the future. Most of the rest will be salvage or ruins.”

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Author:James Howard Kunstler

“To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.”

Law Desire Purpose Perfect Restraint Abandonment Totality Depreciate Depreciation

Book:The Guide of the Perplexed

Source: The Guide of the Perplexed

“After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.”

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Author:Maurice Strong

“He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.”

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Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

“Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.”

Knows Self Enough Secret Missing Vanity Proportion Compensation Timidity Discerning Depreciation

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself. … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.”

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Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.”

People Government Form Interest Wealth Office Mass Gold Sake Devices Metals Stable Currency Wiser Refrain Administrators Depreciation Precious Metal

Author:Elgin Groseclose

“Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.”

Nations Violence Libertarian Quantity Currency Ruined Acts Of Violence Depreciation

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”

“One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.”

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Author:Dennis Hastert

“Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.”

Ifs Body Percentages Prostitution Depreciation

Author:Xaviera Hollander