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Anything you own that owns a little of your future too.
means Something valuable you own — money, property, skills, or anything that holds worth or works in your favor.
from From the Anglo-French 'asetz,' meaning 'enough' — itself from Latin 'ad satis,' 'to sufficiency' (a cousin of 'satisfy' and 'satiate'). It began as a legal term: a dead person's estate held 'enough' assets to cover their debts. Over time the singular 'asset' was carved out of what looks like a plural, and the idea of 'enough to pay' broadened into 'anything of value you possess.'
- latin root
- From assez, French for enough, meaning sufficient to pay debts
- hidden liability
- A swimming pool is an asset that drowns money
- intangible kings
- Brands and patents now outweigh factories on balance sheets
- spy slang
- In espionage, an asset is a recruited human source
- oldest one
- Land has been recorded as wealth for 5,000 years
mona lisa — painting valued at ~$800 million, louvre museum, paris
apple inc stock — market cap $3.2 trillion as of 2024, most valuable public company
saudi aramco oil reserves — 267 billion barrels of crude oil, world's largest proven reserves
manhattan real estate — total property value estimated at $1.76 trillion in 2023