Quotes About Value

Why is current industry profitability what it is? What's propping it up? What's changing? How is profitability likely to shift? What limiting factors must be overcome to capture more of the value you create?

In this section of chapters, we'll cover five tests every good strategy must pass: A distinctive value proposition A tailored value chain Trade-offs different from rivals Fit across value chain Continuity over time

Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.

There isn't a girl on earth who'd willingly give up her bangles.

We're relieved—and that's what makes us both feel so terrible. Can you imagine? To me, that would be the ultimate disgrace, to leave behind people who felt relief rather than sorrow at my passing. It would mean that I hadn't added value to this world. That I hadn't earned my keep as one of God's creatures. Isn't that the least we owe our Creator for all this splendor? To make a mark, to effect a change, to lighten a load, to do something to repay Him for this gift of life?

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

It is not, Ianthe, a priest's function to be a bottomless well of woolly uncritical forgiveness. That would only devalue virtue.

Knowledge is currency here....

I could have been stronger," she said. "I wasn't enough to keep something so important.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.