Quotes About Value

The cheapest car anyone can ever own is always the car they presently own.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

What you risk reveals what you value.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Yes, the irreplaceables, the things you never use--those are what really matters. I've got a damask table-cloth, you know, and napkins to match for 24 people. I've heard it said that a woman's possessions are part of herself. If she loses her things, her personality undergoes a change

La antigüedad no es lo mismo que el interés histórico —dijo—. De lo contrario, nosotros dos seríamos más interesantes de lo que somos.

only elevenpence in the shilling.

Any book represents effort, struggle, work--I know, I write them myself--every book deserves attention, even if that ends with dismissal.

O brilho do diamante são as lágrimas dos trabalhadores da Companhia. A dureza do diamante é uma ilusão: não é mais que gotas de suor esmagadas pelas toneladas de terra que o cobrem.

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

It is one of the attributes of capitalist enterprise that an object is no longer significant for its essence but for its exchange value.

Slaves, like oxen and sheep, were known as 'live money'.

He could not bear to part with his paintings because they were an aspect of his being.

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth?