Quotes About Value

Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions.

Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question.

It was an awful word. Nothing. It made him sick at heart. He refused to believe it. Hebdemanded that there be something he could do. He demanded that his love be worth something to his child. If it wasn't, life was garbage. He hd to rulenout the idea that life was just a matter of accident, of percentages, because it was just too goddamn much to stand for. There had to be some way you could make yourself be felt.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Competency is more valued than seniority; knowledge is more useful than status.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

four key principles: (1) taking the initiative to reach out to others; (2) showing genuine interest in people; (3) treating others with respect and kindness; and (4) valuing others and yourself as unique individuals who have much to share and offer one another.

What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it?

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.

Ther's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude. (after his client signed an 80 million contract with Virgin Records)

Se fosse davvero oro, tutto questo finirebbe! Sarei più ricco, ma non sarei mai più lo stesso! L'aria fresca avrà un profumo migliore? I giorni di Sole saranno più luminosi? Le notte stellate nasconderanno altri segreti? O perderò tutto questo? Ma io davvero voglio essere... ricco? (Capitolo VIII)

This is a one-time thing," Danny says. "Your soul is never a rental," Bernie says. "It's always a sale.

The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I'd be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

that an economically rational buyer would pay for a work product before, and after, the activity is performed.

Our primary goal in product development is to make good economic choices. All proxy objectives, such as innovation, waste reduction, design for manufacturing, etc., should be viewed as secondary. They are a means to influence overall economic outcomes, never an end in themselves. In

The key idea is that product and project attributes that have economic value should be quantified using a standardized and useful unit of measure: life-cycle profit impact.

Kate never had any money, but she loved to save it. When she was ninety-three her youngest daughter took her to a dollar store where she found an elevated tray filled with tiny aluminum percolators, one-cuppers. The frank and ethical enterprise attached a notice informing its customers that these percolators did not work. They were only 5 cents, so Kate bought two of them anyway.

The key point is that, in principle, interest income is the change in price associated with the passage of time. Capital gains and losses are the changes in price related to changes in value—for bonds that means a change in the yield. We'll see in Chapter 4 when we get into bond taxation how well these economic principles hold up in practice.

I have a chance to chance to trade my bicycle for a sword," said Peter. "I want to make sure the sure the sword is real." "You don't think the sword is really a sword?" said Encyclopedia. "What do you think it is?

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other "material" thing is often "immaterial" to God.