Equity Quotes

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. (Edmund Burke)
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. View quote
Muhammad Yunus
He who seeks equity must do equity. View quote
Joseph Story
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. View quote
Herbert Spencer
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. View quote
Jacques Delors
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack. View quote
Austen Chamberlain
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. View quote
John Knox
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years. View quote
Alan Greenspan
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical. View quote
Benjamin Graham
In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post. View quote
Sadao Araki
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them. (African Spir)
One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world. View quote
Bill Gates
An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void. View quote
James Otis
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. View quote
John Selden
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity. View quote
Nicolae Ceaușescu
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. View quote
Adam Smith
Quasi-integration is to use debt or equity investments and other means to create alliances between vertically related firms without full ownership. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Many of the criticisms of capitalism advanced by socialists were essentially correct. Capitalism is persistently at odds with values of equity, fairness, political equality among all citizens, and democracy. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt. View quote
Alex Berenson
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. View quote
Alexander Lebedev
Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations. (Bahá'u'lláh)
It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice. View quote
Bahá'u'lláh
The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred. View quote
Alvaro Uribe
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. View quote
Bill Gross
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. View quote
Benjamin Robbins Curtis