Quotes About Value

So much dissatisfaction comes from focusing on what we don't have that the simple exercise of acknowledging and valuing what we do have can transform our outlook.

We take our identity and our self-worth from our jobs.

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for. We

Money is something you trade your life energy for. You sell your time for money. It doesn't matter that Ned over there sells his time for a hundred dollars and you sell yours for twenty dollars an hour. Ned's money is irrelevant to you. The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

We have devalued the price of the things we need most to survive on a daily basis yet overvalued many of the things we can live without.

Did you ever think about that?" Joe would ask. "That you have a relationship with money?" He'd get on his knees, begging money to love him. He'd exhibit mock terror, shrinking from the evil hundred-dollar bill. He'd hold it out like a carrot and run around after it, reaching but never grasping it. "This is what your relationship with money looks like! Think about it. If you were money, would you hang out with you?

We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

to make him pay you for your product, you must make it pay him to read about it.

An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.

Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.