Quotes About Value

The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

Mo Ostin was a great money-maker, but he had the aesthetic interest of a fire plug.

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

Each time you buy a used game, this is money that doesn't go into the pocket of the people that took the risk to create this, to finance it, to develop it.

I don't think what's in my pocketbook matters.

Some shareholders believe it is all about price and a few people's pockets.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

I'm the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let's build companies of lasting value.

Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

Coaches are overvalued.

Assets are cold.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.