Quotes About Value

Just as absent pleasures that do deprive are 'bad' in the sense of 'worse', so absent pleasures that do not deprive are 'not bad' in the sense of 'not worse'.

Fifty years passed between the scandals of the 1920s and their counterparts in the 1980s. If Wall Street escapes another major threat to its integrity for even half as long, the crackdown that culminated in Milken's conviction will have proven of historic value.

He wants your friendship, and for it he'll pay you in virtues you can use all your life.

So the economic benefit of higher education in arts subjects appears to be nil. In fact, it is a luxury in the sense that it costs money rather than yielding it. It is a luxury which is paid for out of general taxation, including taxation of the poor.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. —Coach John Wooden

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

Picking up pennies while dropping dollars

True friendship is a rare and valuable gift not a commodity

A woman looking for her King and not a Prince shows of her high intelligence and her value on her limited time not to waste it

Your time is not free, how you decide to use or not use your time will be paid at the end of your life

Evaluation is not an afterthought to training, but rather is meant to be integrated into the entire learning and development process. If you wait until after a program is designed, developed, and delivered to consider what value it is supposed to provide to the organization and how you will evaluate it, there is little chance of the program having much value.

Time is limited and valuable in this world and those who understand this takes action

Where a relatively small proportion of those participating in a given activity create most of the value, it is all but mathematically impossible for them to be left better off by a coerced outcome that averages incomes.

Even the best national currency of the postwar period, the German mark, lost 71 percent of its value from January 1, 1949, through the end of June 1995. In the same period, the U.S. dollar lost 84 percent of its value.9 This inflation had the same effect as a tax on all who hold the currency.

When technology is mobile, and transactions occur in cyberspace, as they increasingly will do, governments will no longer be able to charge more for their services than they are worth to the people who pay for them.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

Listen,' Thomas said, slowly getting to his feet, hoping Minho wouldn't be stupid enough to try anything. "There's something about us. We're not just random shanks who showed up on your doorstep. We're valuable. Alive, not dead." The anger on Jorge's face lessened ever so slightly. Maybe a spark of curiosity. But what he said was 'What's a shank?

Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.