Quotes About Value

Money is only congealed snow.

Cuando has construido una relación satisfactoria contigo mismo, entonces tienes algo de gran valor para compartir con los demás.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I am not suggesting you shouldn't work hard, but I am suggesting that if you are defining your value by the chase—by your ambition, your work, and your achievement—then you are simply chasing after the wind, and ultimately, it is meaningless.

Money is good, love is wealth.

What, then, is his appraisal of your worth? He was willing to pay the price of his own Son's death on an executioner's cross to pay for your sin so you might have an intimate relationship with him. That's the value God places on you. If you truly see how precious and valuable a treasure you and your sexuality are to him, it will transform the way you allow others to treat you—"significant others" included.

Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.

He believed the best use of human beings was as compost or incubators.

There was an old joke that had always struck Delamater as defining of the human species. A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds, "We have established what you are, madam. Now we're just haggling over the price.

The more irreplaceable and important a person was in one's life, he supposed, the more vulnerable and afraid one became of losing them.

Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision was simple. You get thirty dollars or you get nothing. With this logic you would take any positive amount.

So if you were hoarding something worthless, it would be a slap on the wrist," said Megan. "But since they found out you were hoarding something of incredible value, you're screwed.

Thomas Paine had written, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

Then we don't deserve to be preserved,

A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds, "We have established what you are, madam. Now we're just haggling over the price.

If food were free, why work?

Clipa… E un loc mult supraapreciat.

Money. The trickiest substance in life--as it's the way we keep score, measure our worth, and think we can control our destinies. Money: the essential lie.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

In an organization where promotion is the sole measure of success, most people are oriented to the job to which they hope to move next. Naturally, they want to be promoted in order to prove their value, so their performance on the present job is geared exclusively to those things which will get them out of it! This,

But they praise any culture so long as it is not Western solely and simply in order to denigrate and devalue the West. As a result, they reach their final end argument, which is to demand why anyone should admire or wish to continue a civilization that has done so much wrong and had such bigotry and hatred built in throughout its history.

If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.

Dismissiveness, no matter how forcefully or broadly it may be communicated, has no persuasive value when attempting to reject evidence that calls one's view into question. - Douglas Petrovich 19 March 2021