Quotes About Value

Giving up the opportunity to sell something does not hurt as much as taking the money out of your wallet to pay for it. Opportunity costs are vague and abstract when compared to handing over actual cash.

specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

What this means is that people do not assign specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

Bargains and Rip-Offs

Imagine that you are about to purchase a jacket for ($125)[$15] and a calculator for ($15)[$125]. The calculator salesman informs you that the calculator you wish to buy is on sale for ($10)[$120] at the other branch of the store, located a twenty-minute drive away. Would you make the trip to the other store?

Once I have a mug, I don't want to give it up. But if I don't have one, I don't feel an urgent need to buy one. What this means is that people do not assign specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

He had never told her just what he thought of the value of prayer and all the rest of the self-deluding mumbo jumbo with which otherwise rational people tried to humanize the cosmos. Man had created God in his own image, not the other way around.

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.

Do not store up for yourselves earthly possessions, which moths and rust can destroy, and robbers can steal. Rather, store up heavenly treasures which cannot be destroyed or stolen. For wherever your heart is, there is your treasure as well.

Save it all; you do not knowthe value things will come to have untilthe world grows dim around you, and your things—however doubtful in the changing light,things are what you haveleft. And all you have.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

quality of life isn't measured only by what we gain, but also by what we trade for it.

All this time I have been telling myself that the skills I have to offer continue to be of value. Now I wonder if this is so. It may be that the day of the so-called "gunfighter" is on the wane. That soon it will be little more than the memory of a brief period in time when masters of the handgun ruled the frontier. A living dead man. That is what I have been for some time now.

It's a funny thing about capitalism: money you lose by slowing down is always more important than money you've already made.

This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

It's a funny thing about capitalism: money you lose by slowing down is always more important than money you've already made.

The great paradox of existence may be that only the dead certainty of losing everything makes anything at all worth keeping.

If life demanded a slavish commitment to one pursuit, there were worse things to commit to than calculating the cash value of death.

She hears him, and understands. This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

Men are worthless; they always think the issue is what's at issue.

But it's Idaho, and when you spend all your hours with horses, your soul expands a bit until the ways of men reveal themselves to be no more than a costume party you'd be well advised not to take at face value.

when you spend all your hours with horses, your soul expands a bit until the ways of men reveal themselves to be no more than a costume party you'd be well advised not to take at face value.

The steady seepage into Oil Creek argued for a substantial underground reservoir. To find that reservoir and tap it would require investment. Silliman, the two men hoped, would certify the value of the petroleum to potential investors.