Quotes About Value

Syndicated columnist Harvey Mackay said, "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. – Matthew 10:31

The first four steps of selling are familiar to most people. Being a successful salesman requires: Having a product to sell that other people value. Locating a market (i.e., buyers) for your product. Implementing a sales presentation and/or marketing strategy. Closing the sale. These four steps have been discussed in many sales books, but, remarkably, I've never seen the fifth—and most important—step discussed in any book: 5. GETTING PAID!

During the ensuing heated discussion, he said two things that would ring in my ears for the remainder of my days at Screw U. First, he said, "You have a lot of nerve trying to earn $15,000 on one deal. I mean, you're only a broker." Wham—right between the eyes. Talk about painting a clear picture of how I was perceived by a lender.

La apreciaba por lo que era, no por lo que parecía.

Free will is not always the most important thing

The way I always kind of look at it: everything's important and nothing's important. If you're gonna have a drama, have it over something that's worth the time. Some people take it more seriously than others, like a Lowell. But we all end up the same.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

apparently sees some value in the antiquity of the doctrine of ... This means absolutely nothing to me, for whom the Scriptures alone are my sole doctrinal authority, beyond the fact that this is just one more error of the ancient fathers. I could fill pages documenting other errors that the ancient fathers held and espoused. Response to The Classic Arminian View of Election, page 135

The Egyptians took their goods to their graves with them. The great dynasties of Britain and Europe try to keep things in the family so long as there is something in the bank. But Americans prefer to turn it into cash and start anew. They are less sentimental about these things.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Everyone lives by selling something.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man's creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God.

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

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

Do I bludgeon my brains against this wall or do I find some way to get through my days with value?

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.

Life teaches that the measure of the value of any human desire is in direct proportion to the risk involved in its pursuit. The higher the value, the higher the risk. We give the ultimate values to those things that demand the ultimate risks—our freedom, our lives, our souls.