Quotes About Value

I always thought it is a bit of a balloon, how rich we are.

It's almost like when you don't have money, you think it's important. And once you have it, you're like, 'Was I really happy because I have more money going into the bank? No.'

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

If you want to sell a service, you have to be the first to believe that the service has value.

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

You can't put a price on being proud of what you do.

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Just winning a belt, it doesn't mean anything to me.

los títulos y honores carecían de importancia.

La libertad y la simple belleza de la vida son algo demasiado valioso como para desperdiciarlo.

In the wake of the British army's burning of the roughly 3,000 books belonging to Congress at Washington, Jefferson offered to sell the nation his own collection.42 There were 6,487 volumes in Jefferson's hands; in the words of the National Intelligencer, the library "for its selection, rarity and intrinsic value, is beyond all price."43,44 They formed the core of the new Library of Congress.

We've got to squash this dewy-eyed belief that people can be motivated by anything other than money.

THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

It offended his sense of proportion and economy to throw away a ninety-percent serviceable string of lights. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value and, by extension, the value of individuals generally: to willfully designate as trash an object that you knew wasn't trash.

It's great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavour and you have to spend another buck.