Quotes About Value

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch.

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.

Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

You can't walk into Wal-Mart and just walk out with a TV - you can't just download a TV. So don't go and download the Jadakiss album without paying for it. It cost money to make that album, dude.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

I tell you this: if I was in the house with those people in the Bergman flicks, I'd walk right out, much less pay $5 to see them.

Children are primed to take in something of more moral value than they're getting. I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but 'E.T.' had value to it in terms of the feeling about yourself that you walked away with.

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

Only people who can't draw money need belts.

I'm not stupid - if you buy one of the world's best goalkeepers, it's not to keep him on the bench.

I don't buy it is all about the rings because there are a lot of guys that got rings that can't play a lick. They happened to be on the bench with some great players, so I don't buy into that totally.

I will benefit from being a part of this industry, but I also want the industry to benefit from me.

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.

I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.