Quotes About Value

At present, people are happy to give away their most valuable asset—their personal data—in exchange for free email services and funny cat videos. It's a bit like African and Native American tribes who unwittingly sold entire countries to European imperialists in exchange for colorful beads and cheap trinkets.

First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.

Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.

Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so.

In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos. From

In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos.

Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In

Cowry shells and dollars have value only in our common imagination. Their worth is not inherent in the chemical structure of the shells and paper, or their colour, or their shape. In other words, money isn't a material reality – it is a psychological construct. It works by converting matter into mind.

Trust is the raw material from which all types of money are minted.

Even in romance, any aspiring Romeo or Werther knows that without sacrifice, there is no true love. The sacrifice is not just a way to convince your lover that you are serious - it is also a way to convince yourself that you are really in love. Why do you think women ask their lovers to bring them diamond rings? Once the lover makes such a huge financial sacrifice, he must convince himself that it was for a worthy cause.

El dinero es así un medio universal de intercambio que permite a la gente convertir casi todo en casi cualquier cosa.

because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.

The sacrifice is not just a way to convince your lover that you are serious; it is also a way to convince yourself that you are really in love. Why do you think women ask their lovers for diamond rings? Once the lover makes such a huge financial sacrifice, he must convince himself that it was for a worthy cause.

money isn't a material reality – it is a psychological construct.

In the twenty-first century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society.

The supreme value of this new religion is 'information flow'. If life is the movement of information, and if we think that life is good, it follows that we should deepen and broaden the flow of information in the universe.

Though it has no intrinsic value—you cannot eat or drink a dollar bill—trust in the dollar and in the wisdom of the Federal Reserve is so firm that it is shared even by Islamic fundamentalists, Mexican drug lords, and North Korean tyrants.

if you want reliable information, pay good money for it.

Esse é você. Ao agir de forma verdadeira, você estará se valorizando e logo notará que as coisas começarão a mudar e as pessoas, a tratá-lo melhor. Várias portas se abrirão em sua vida profissional e as relações familiares serão mais amistosas.

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me; but if I am only for myself, of what value am I?

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

I don't believe in casual sex, because meaningless sex is mad boring and frankly, in this day and age, not worth the risk.

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency