Quotes About Value

Mixing a broad index fund with small-cap value has produced the best results. U.S. equities are a core position in almost every growth investor's portfolio.

The value of our exegesis and hermeneutics will be tested by their capacity to produce persons and communities whose character is commensurate with Jesus Christ and thereby pleasing to God.22

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.

Why be your real self when you can be something really worthwhile?

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]

If God had bid you give them all your estates to own them, or lay down your lives to save them, sure you would have refused, when you will not bestow a little breath to save them? Is not the soul of a husband, or wife, or child, or neighbour, worth a few words? It is worth this, or it is worth nothing. . . . If you did know their misery, you would now do more to bring them out of hell (409). (III.XIII)

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily.

Everything's gone,' I heard someone say. I thought of the lifetime of diaries and photographs disappearing up in smoke and I turned to Mia and Joe. 'Remember, it's not material things that matter in life,' I told them. 'Things aren't important, people are. All that matters is that everyone is safe.

Además de conocer de primera mano ciertas cosas que usted jamás encontrará en los informes de gestión, el hecho de que un alto directivo (en este caso, usted) se interese por las opiniones de sus colaboradores, las pida y se tome la molestia de escucharlas tiene un enorme valor para todos.

desarrollar una fuerte labor de liderazgo y mantener una cultura en la que sus empleados sepan que usted los valora, los empodera y confía en ellos.

la basura de un hombre es el tesoro de otro"; en este esquema, le pedimos a la gente que mire si tiene ropa, muebles o cualquier cosa que ya no use y los lleven a la oficina, donde hay un punto de recolección.

SIR OLIVER. Aye — I know — there are a set of malicious prating prudent Gossips both male and Female, who murder characters to kill time, and will rob a young Fellow of his good name before He has years to know the value of it.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

It's just a piece of land and a lot of lawyers. We have to create something of value on the land—design it and see it built. That's all that matters.

Connoisseurs need not be aristocratic, but must adopt or reject people and tastes according to a patrician sensibility that ignores the worlds of productivity and profit. Money is esteemed as a means to acquire what they value, but despised as a provider of power, showiness, luxury, over-eating or barbarous hobbies.

The twin camps also show how outsiders, even those with good intentions, can drive a group of people to misery when they misunderstand the human value of an economy.

Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books.

learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.

Not that I subscribe to the utilitarian view that plants are only good for what we can get out of them—it should be enough to add another beautiful (or even plain) item to nature's inventory. We need to know what there is in the world for us to look after, regardless of its potential use.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.