Quotes About Value

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science - and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.

I despise wasting a meal.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I hate wasting time.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica.

Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.

When it comes to watches, it's ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less accurate than a five-quid digital bought from a petrol station.

I have nice watches. I don't set them.

Some watches I bought, I think now, 'Why the hell did I pay that much for a watch?'

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

Some collectors do but no, I don't look at watches as an investment.

I got a lot of money like invested in watches. When I buy watches I make sure, like you could go buy and they're still gonna have the same price, the same value, or maybe more.

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.