Quotes About Value

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled.

You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?

I'm aware of my value as a player, of course. But do I need to buy a holiday home that I'm only going to use two weeks every year? Course not. It's a waste. Why not give the money to people who could do with it.

There's no point in having a bunch of stuff that you're not going to wear. Why not just have a few things that you actually like?

Star voices are not cheap. So if they're not bringing the desired result for the studio, why not pay the VO artists better.

If I am adding value as an actor to something that's offered to me on television, why not to do it? But it must challenge me and I must add some value to it.

Michael Strahan should get the amount of money that anybody else in the league is getting. I don't care if it is a quarterback, wide receiver, defensive lineman, linebacker. He should make the kind of money Brett Favre, Marshall Faulk make, because he's that type of player.

I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.