Quotes About Value

Oh child that didst despise thy life so much When it seemed only thine to keep or lose, How the fine ear felt fall the first low word "Value life, and preserve life for My sake!"

Just for a handful of silver he left us,Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

No, when the fight begins within himself,A man's worth something.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The man's the gowd for a' that.

Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

The first value of software—behavior—is urgent but not always particularly important. The second value of software—architecture—is important but never particularly urgent.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. —Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

Software has two types of value: the value of its behavior and the value of its structure. The second of these is the greater of the two because it is this value that makes software soft.

software has two types of value: the value of its behavior and the value of its structure.

Every software system provides two different values to the stakeholders: behavior and structure. Software developers are responsible for ensuring that both those values remain high. Unfortunately, they often focus on one to the exclusion of the other.

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Una mujer fácil de obtener no puede valer gran cosa.

Although it was pure luck that the book Improvement of the Mind fell into his hands, it took someone with such focus to recognize immediately its worth and exploit

What withdraws, what becomes scarce, suddenly seems to deserve our respect and honor. What stays too long, inundating us with its presence, makes us disdain it.

If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.

Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.

Todo lo que es gratuito es peligroso, ya que por lo general implica alguna treta o un compromiso oculto. Las cosas que tienen costo valen la pena pagarse. De esta manera, no estará obligado a gratitud alguna, se verá libre de culpa y evitará fraudes y engaños. Lo más inteligente es, a menudo, pagar el precio total. Cuando hablamos de excelencia no hay gangas. Sea generoso con su dinero y hágalo circular, dado que la generosidad es señal e imán de poder.