Intangibles Quotes

“Today, even tangibles are intangibles - cars, planes, and computers rely on software. They are essentially digital assets under the disguise of a mechanical body, and much of their value is intangible.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“The value of intangibles derived from intellectual property rights and trademarks from brands, inventions, software code, and programs has never been higher.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water, and nobody knows what it is.” —D. H. Lawrence, Pansies”
― D.H. Lawrence, Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence

“Human and intellectual capital may be the most important intangible assets.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“These knottier questions have led some observers to suggest that national account statistics (and therefore our distributional national accounts) underestimate growth. More or less everyone who’s been involved at a high level in economic policymaking over the last decades, or an influential figure in the new economy, says it.”
― Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

“It was my own frustration in constantly explaining the value of intangibles that led me to write down these thoughts, intending to increase understanding by creating a coherent explanation of this transformative perspective.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

“There are many countries in the world that specialize in material exports. They export minerals, gold, oil,, manufactured goods, technology etc. But Bhaarath specializes in exporting non materials and other intangibles of deep thought and spirit which money could never buy.”
― Syd K., Semmanthaka: The Second Quest for an Immortal gem

“Intangible factors that evade easy measurement do not diminish their importance.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide