Quotes About Value

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

If any man thinks wealth or power of greater worth To him who has them, than a good friend- he is mad.

I say; [136] for a man who dies from among his household is regretted, but a woman is of little account.

Tis wise to do good work, but also wise To pay the worker. Aye, and fair reward Makes twofold pleasure, though the work be hard.

Autonomy in the workplace is highly valuable in neoliberal organizations because responsibility is no longer vertically distributed but horizontally spread and diffused.

How could something as significant to one person mean so little to another?

For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost.

The degree of relative advantage may be measured in economic terms, but social prestige, convenience, and satisfaction are also important factors.

amounting to about

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy--it increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

He had fixed his aunt with the bright-yellow eye, giving her that acute and exaggerated attention that young males are accustomed to render to all females who are of no further value.

Wylie: If you don't like advice, why do you pay me? Stahr: That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.

Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.

Pas une seconde il n'avait cessé de regarder Daisy et je pense que les objets qu'il possédait changeait de valeur à ses yeux à mesure qu'ils en prenaient une aux yeux de celle qu'il aimait. Il les contemplait parfois avec stupéfaction, comme si l'incroyable et indiscutable présence de Daisy les rendait brusquement irréels.

Her affairs had long shared such a sameness, that, as she dried out, they were more important for their conversational value than for themselves. Her emotions had their truest existence in the telling of them.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.