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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.

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

Quotes by Toshihiko Fukui

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...

Quotes by Timothy Geithner

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.

Quotes by Stanley Druckenmiller

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.

Quotes by Niall Ferguson

Behaved Quotes

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.

Quotes by Kelly Evans

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.

Quotes by Howard Dean

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.

Quotes by George M. Church

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.

Quotes by Georg Simmel

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...

Quotes by David Rockefeller

Best Quotes

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Quotes by Bono

Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I'm guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I'll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, 'I have to go here. I've got to go there.' Usually,...

Quotes by Bill Rancic

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main focus of these allocating quotes?
They center on how capital, resources, and savings get directed within financial systems, often from a business or economic policy perspective.
Is Warren Buffett referenced in this collection?
Yes, one quote reflects his often-repeated point that a CEO's key role is allocating capital effectively across a company's businesses.
Do these quotes touch on market philosophy?
Yes, one argues that markets aren't perfect but remain the best available way of allocating resources, tying the topic to broader debates about economic freedom.
Why does 'allocating' matter to financial systems overall?
One quote explains that well-functioning financial systems channel household savings into the corporate sector, showing how allocation connects individual choices to economic growth.
Are there related quotes about business leadership?
Yes, see our best quotes collection for more perspectives on excellence and strategic decision-making.

Other lines connect allocating resources to broader economic systems, from channeling household savings into the corporate sector to debates over market freedom, ideas explored further in our critically quotes page.