Quotes About Value

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

A walk is as good as a home run.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.