Quotes About Value

There's always the question of price, isn't there? Some prices I might not want to pay.

Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's

The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

prize isn't worth the arrow

A flower in a field of weeds was always a sight, but if you passed cultivated flower beds every day, none of them drew your notice.

Or maybe you think you aren't worth loving? Is

Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

No masterwork comes without a price, he thought. That doesn't mean it's not worth forging.

What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself.

El conocimiento es el nuevo dinero.

Las palabras tienen el poder de volverte rico o pobre. Si quieres ser rico, aprende las palabras que te prepararán para ello. Lo mejor de todo es que… las palabras no cuestan.

El papel moneda no es riqueza.

Being blessed has tremendous psychological consequences for us. There are even studies that show that our bodies actually change chemically when we feel valued, praised, and blessed.

As Smith put it: "Every individual . . . neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . . . he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."5

If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)

Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn't have five minutes.

had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.

Americans, I think, understand the value of allies and how they are a unique asset for the United States, especially compared to both Russia and China, neither of which have any. At the same time, those allies are expected to pull their weight.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

Quality is just the focal point around which a lot of intellectual furniture is getting rearranged.

The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.