Quotes About Value

Valoarea unei opere st? în fericirea pe care o naÅŸte, nu în preÅ£ul cu care e împopoÅ£onat?.

Io non posso abituarmi a vivere in un mondo dove l'ascolto ha un prezzo, non posso delegarlo a una categoria professionale.

Çokluk nosyonu ile liberal düÅŸünce aras?nda bir ortakl?k var gibi görünür, çünkü bireyliÄŸe deÄŸer verir, ama ayn? zamanda da kendini ondan radikal bir ÅŸekilde ay?r?r, çünkü bu bireylik evrenselden, türselden, birey-öncesinden kaynaklanan bir bireyleÅŸme sürecinin nihai ürünüdür.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

Quien no conoce nada, no ama nada. Quien no puede hacer nada, no comprende nada. Quien nada comprende, nada vale. Pero quien comprende también ama, observa, ve… Cuanto mayor es el conocimiento inherente a una cosa, más grande es el amor… Quien cree que todas las frutas maduran al mismo tiempo que las frutillas nada sabe acerca de las uvas.

Quem, nada pode fazer, nada compreende. Quem nada compreende, nada vale.

Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.

Time is the most valuable natural resource we have.

I can't think of it now. It costs too much.

The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.

Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as "real work.

By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life.

I'll be asking if I was faithful to my gifts, to the needs I saw around me, and to the ways I engaged those needs with my gifts—faithful, that is, to the value, rightness, and truth of offering the world the best I had, as best I could. For helping me understand this—and for imbuing

I like to tell women to seek out the "puzzle" and the "gem" within the man. The puzzle is, "What makes this person tick? Do I like it?" The gem is, "What is this person's gift? Humor? Honesty? Intelligence?

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

I'm often asked why I got out when so many didn't. I've mentioned the high school teacher who stopped me in the hall for my assistance in a school performance. Before that man, whose name is Stan Asher, no one had ever looked at me or spoken to me as though I had value. For me, that's the key. Otherwise, I probably would have gone on believing that I was intrinsically bad, with nothing to offer. I believe that many in that house were never offered a positive image of themselves.

Identify businesses that can generate above-average profits for many years. 2. Wait until the shares of those businesses trade for less than their intrinsic value, and then buy. 3. Hold those shares until either the business deteriorates, the shares become overvalued, or you find a better investment. This holding period should be measured in years, not months. 4. Repeat as necessary.

1. Identify businesses that can generate above-average profits for many years. 2. Wait until the shares of those businesses trade for less than their intrinsic value, and then buy. 3. Hold those shares until either the business deteriorates, the shares become overvalued, or you find a better investment. This holding period should be measured in years, not months. 4. Repeat as necessary.

Even the Best Company Will Hurt Your Portfolio If You Pay Too Much for It.

The basic investment process is simple: Analyze the company and value the stock. If you avoid the mistake of confusing a great company with a great investment—and the two can be very different—you'll already be ahead of many of your investing peers. (Think of Cisco at 100 times earnings in 2000. It was a great company, but it was a terrible stock.)

Wait until the shares of those businesses trade for less than their intrinsic value, and buy.

The structure of the book is the same as the basic investment process that we advocate: Develop a set of investing principles, understand the company's competitive environment, analyze the company, and value the stock. If you can follow this process while avoiding most big mistakes, you'll do just fine as an investor.

One annual report is worth 10 speeches by a Federal Reserve chairman.

Going against the grain takes courage, but that courage pays off. You'll do better as an investor if you think for yourself and seek out bargains in parts of the market that everyone else has forsaken, rather than buying the flavor of the month in the financial press.