Quotes About Value

I begrudge making a career out of clothes, but Lyndon likes bright colors and dramatic styles that do the most for one's figure, and I try to please him," she was to say. "I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look well.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality. ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . .

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself—ultimate cost for perfect value.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

Oh, Tanstaafl. Means There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. And isn't,' I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, 'or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible.

Oh, 'tanstaafl.' Means 'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.' And isn't," I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, "or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.

If you turn out to be useful as well as ornamental, you can stay forever.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.

If you boys and girls had to sweat for your toys the way a newly born baby has to struggle to live you would be happier . . . and much richer. As it is, with some of you, I pity the poverty of your wealth.

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible.

We humans have to make considerable progress before we can accept a free gift, and value it.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. —Thomas Paine

property' is not the natural and obvious concept that most people think it is.

These pretty pictures and bright medallions were not money; they were symbols for an idea which spread through these people, all through their world. But things were not money, any more than water shared was growing-closer. Money was an idea, as abstract as an Old-One's thoughts--money was a great structured symbol for balancing and healing and growing closer.

To prove that degrees, per se, are worthless. Often they are honorifics of true scientists or learned scholars or inspired teachers. Much more frequently they are false faces for overeducated jackasses.

You can't sell love and you can't buy Happiness, no price tags on either . . . and if you think there is, the way to Hell lies open.

Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

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