Quotes About Value

Marketing's job is to design intangibles into the product and then to use them to make products unique.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

I don't understand," Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

But if you can understand the chapter's central point—that the value of a stock or a bond is simply the present value of its future income stream—then you will have a better grasp of the investment process than most professionals. As

Ideally, a fine painting, like a house, is neither a speculation nor an investment; it is a purchase. Its value consists solely of the pleasure and utility it provides now and in the future. The dividend the painting provides is of the non-financial variety. How

Una acción o bono sólo vale el ingreso que produzca en el futuro.

The five major domestic asset classes you should use are: large market, small market, large value, small value, REITs.

In the early fifth century BC, a roll of papyrus, consisting of about twenty sheets, cost between one and three drachmas—that is, one to three days' wages for a semiskilled worker.

In common parlance, the shares of good companies are called "growth stocks," and those of bad companies are called "value stocks.

Thus, the logic of the market suggests that: Good companies are generally bad stocks, and bad companies are generally good stocks. Is this actually true? Resoundingly, yes. There have been a large number of studies of the growth-versus-value question in many nations over long periods of time. They all show the same thing: unglamorous, unsafe value stocks with poor earnings have higher returns than glamorous growth stocks with good earnings. Probably

A good rule of thumb is to never, ever pay more than 15 years fair rental value for any residence.c This computes out to a 6.7 percent (1/15th) gross rental dividend, or 3.7 percent after taxes, insurance, and maintenance, which is about what you might expect from a mixed portfolio of stocks and bonds.

el valor de una acción o bono es simplemente el valor presente de su flujo de ingresos futuro–

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.

I've always thought of her in the way I think of a precious gem: The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.

I had been to visitations before and have been to many since and I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good-bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.

People only will make an effort to save something they care about, and to care about it, they have to know about it.

I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-