Quotes About Value

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

Be stingy of nothing but the name of friend, and take care not to waste your insults.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

non numerantur sed ponderantur (They are not counted but weighed)

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best — God! but the interest!

A track on iTunes costs next to zero to store on Apple's server, and next to zero to transmit to my computer. Whatever it cost the record company to produce (in terms of artist fees and marketing costs) it costs me 99p simply because it's unlawful to copy it for free. The

Si vivre dans les villes est une folie, au moins New York est-il une folie qui en vaut la peine.

I'm not willing to let any thing or any person put my physical sobriety at risk; why should I put less value on my emotional sobriety? Besides, I like the feeling I have when I conduct myself in an emotionally mature, independent manner.

For many of us, emotional sobriety fluctuates wildly in personal value.

Oddly enough, not everyone wants to be affected in a positive way. Some individuals are addicted to their negative feelings. Just as many drinking people place little value on physical sobriety and never get sober, so too, many of us place little value on our emotional sobriety and never get comfortable.

The true net worth of the wise is the wealth that wisdom imparts!

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Thomas Edison once said, "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so . . . . I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

For a long time, until women began entering the workforce in bigger numbers in the 1960s and 1970s, fathers had a valuable—and often overlooked—role to play in the family. They brought home the paychecks that housed and fed their families and provided

What did beauty matter, anyway?

Whether the undertakings are sensible or laughable makes no difference - as long as everyone gets paid.

can gauge how important something is to you by how hard you are willing to work to get it.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish. — Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Ce qui n'est pas ineffable n'a aucune importance.

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

Het is dan ook geen toeval dat Aristoteles zijn visie op kennis uitwerkt in twee boeken die gewijd zijn aan ethiek, want kennis is daaraan ondergeschikt. Waardevrije kennis bestaat niet, evenmin als wetenschap zonder passie.

Safeguarding shareholder value from workplace violence