Quotes About Value

Whenever land is bought and sold, three stakeholders automatically vie for a cut from the revenue that can be had from land: the community, the property owner, and the institutions that finance property ownership. With land-use rights, the revenue from land value increases is primarily recycled back to the community rather than captured by banks and property owners.

It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated and belong to the communities that have created them. The irony is that while improvements such as buildings don't affect the underlying value of the land upon which they are located, they do have the ability to indirectly affect the properties that surround them.

Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists in its surrounding environment.

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

An inscribed Casino Royale in a fine dust jacket costs as much as a small house. The earliest books of John le Carré are worth a king's ransom in fine condition.

A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure.

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

Longevity is highly over rated.

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

For example, imagine that two people each have a hundred dollars. One person carries it in a paper bag. The other keeps it in an iron chest. Both have the same treasure no matter where they put it. Similarly, we all have the same Christ. It doesn't matter if one person has a stronger or weaker faith than another. Both of them still believe in the same Christ and have everything through him.

My personality is a luxury that's costing me too dearly.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.

Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

nothing statusy about being stranded on the road. Designer-label companies charge more because they've spent a fortune on marketing and advertising to build their brand's status, their perceived value. I roll my eyes at people who, for example, wear Facconable shirts or Rolex watches. Right or wrong, I perceive them as so insecure that they need to attempt to appear worthy by silly spending.

1) Who are you? 2) What do you do? 3) Why does it matter?

If we can't find valuable work, it's not because we're in a recession; we're in a recession because we can't find valuable work. We've been confusing cause and effect.

The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation.