Quotes About Value

even a pawn must not be sacrificed to no purpose.

Who needs whom, why, and how much? The answer is important for determining the pricing structure and whether to subsidize one group or another. Suppose

Tabasco and other hot sauces, for instance, will render infected oysters safer for human consumption; at least they kill microorganisms in the test tube. Spices, then, were not merely a luxury in medieval Europe but also a necessity, as their market value testified.

corruption is a symptom of a deeper ill, the disregard for the value of the individual by comparison with the perceived requirements of the state. An attack on corruption that does not address this underlying subservience risks removing one group of corrupt leaders and replacing them with another group that is just as bad.

me make it clear, if you buy an asset and it's costing you money to maintain it - it is not an investment! There

The relationship between the price you pay and the value you receive is the most important factor in determining your future investment returns.

He understood that during depressed markets, if you can get a decent average price at a bottom price range, it would make the selling part much easier, even if you misjudged the timing of the sales. To

he bought all the stocks and businesses he understood, knew for a long time, which he was dead certain were "super bargains.

We have to ask ourselves one single question, according to Koch: "What will give us better result for less energy?" or, in a more common phrase: "How do we get the most bang for our buck?" If

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

Virtually all of the extremely important services that nature provides are completely ignored by conventional economics. The ozone layer, for example, shields all life from DNA-damaging ultraviolet radiation.

After all, if disability brings nothing but likeness to others into the world as its primary contribution to questions of lived embodiment, what value will it have to help us reimagine ways of artfully living less productive, less consumptive, and less exploitative lives?

Companies say they value great design. But they assume that to do great design they need a rock star designer. But great design doesn't live inside designers. It lives inside your users' heads. You get inside your users heads by doing good UX research: research that provides actionable and testable insights into users' needs.

Siempre he sospechado que la amistad está sobrevalorada. Como los estudios universitarios, la muerte y las pollas largas.

Mi padre me enseñó que un padre puede llorar delante de sus hijos, que eso otorga un valor a las lágrimas que los niños no conocen, porque los lloros infantiles son siempre caprichosos, intrascendentes, oportunistas. Pero las lágirmas de un padre son de plomo

They may have only had one pence to spend, but their hearts beamed with gold.

life is precious. Every moment is precious

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

If a spider walks onto your bed, you squish it. If a butterfly lands on your bed, you take a picture. Is the butterfly 'doing something to your brain'? If I didn't make myself look like this, I would already be dead. You kill everything that doesn't have pretty wings.

In fact, Invisibles are found in all walks of life. What binds them is their approach—deriving satisfaction from the value of their work, not the volume of their praise.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.