Quotes About Value

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.

when everybody owns the challenge of generating results, very few stones get left unturned, and value is created at all levels.

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

If you don't respect money, it won't respect you.

You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling; you're solving problems.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.

Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue.

We have a pearl disposal problem down here, you see. After all, if you think about it, they're just oyster poop.

Valuing physical sensations above moral considerations is evidence of either mental deficiency or demonic evil.

Horiki mostraba hacia los objetos de su casa una posesividad que alcanzaba hasta los cordones del cojín. Pensándolo después, a Horiki no le había costado ni un céntimo el divertirse conmigo.

It seems that a physically weak man is of less value to society than even a lame horse.

Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better.

Liberty is a central concept in political philosophy and is often considered a fundamental value in democratic societies. However, the meaning of liberty and the extent to which it should be upheld has been a topic of debate throughout history.

Nobody must be distracted in this fight for life, because out of all values, the most important one is life itself.

Social entrepreneurship takes place when a social value proposition (a solution of some kind) provides wide-scale, lasting systems change for the benefit of society.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift that can never be bought.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.