Quotes About Value

The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else.

As a means of diagnosis only, I consider the value of the method to be on the whole as great as that of catheter ism; but the latter we shall, I think, find to be more efficacious in the treatment, than applicable in the investigation of disease.

Second and third opinions can be valuable, but don't spin your wheels and lose time by getting ten opinions.

The things that matter to us are measured by depth. Would you assess your humanity by its pace? When I view myself as a time-sensitive product, valued for what I produce, then I have made depth, extended thought, and the inward journey marginal indulgences.

You do not have enough, therefore you are not enough" is a powerful belief sustaining the market. The faith communities must believe "You are enough, and therefore you have enough." And so must we all.

Thus it has always been: Only in death do worthless people have worth.

The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from my perspective, is how you insist on putting a financial value on everything.

One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.

La búsqueda de sentido está condenada al fracaso de antemano porque la vida no tiene "sentido", pero eso no significa que no valga la pena vivirla.

One is not entitled to contempt for something to which one is not equal.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

So much can be learned from other traditions. In the long history of the Christian church, so many different, even conflicting, points of view have been embraced as true and valuable.

A business exists to create a customer

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Civilization was a blessing you never truly appreciated until it threatened to collapse around you.

So what the hell do you want us to do, then?" Delvan asked. "Make that cost exorbitant," Soi Hon said. "Such people always assign a value to everything in monetary terms. We might not be able to defeat them on Mortonridge, but we can certainly prevent any further Liberation campaigns after this one.

I have come to realize that life is the most precious thing. It matters not where you are, or who you are. All that matters is how that life is lived; and lived it should be, to the full.

The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.