Quotes About Value

Salaries should be set based on production and contributions, not positions.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Don't take any possession for granted.

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

Just because someone sends you some gloves you don't need to keep making several posts with them. That's not how it works, you have to value your image.

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.

Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

I learned early on that it's important to respect every idea as if it could potentially be worth something later.

I know what a pound is, and I earn my £12 an hour, and that's great.

Once I remember shouting, 'Mum, can I get a pound for an ice cream?' and she said, 'I haven't got a pound, Kyle.' People take so much for granted, but I will never forget that.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Money can't buy poverty.

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.

As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.