Quotes About Value

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

Kyrie Irving, before he even played one game of college basketball, had 7,000 fans on Twitter. Seven thousand. So these kids these days are put on this pedestal up here. I really think it discourages the value of hard work and of patience.

It's really cool. I don't know how many people in the world have a silver medal. Maybe a thousand?

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

Unless you're shopping in a store, "new" does not come with a label attached, nor with a price tag.

I can only strive for what is important

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.

I didn't see then what I see now, that the things that make us unremarkable are also the very things we'll fight to death to protect. Unremarkable things turn us into heroes.

No, that's this stupid country that makes people idols and famous even though they've accomplished exactly nothing in their life.

Because if there is one simple, single lesson I can impart to you, it's this: Don't waste time, because you don't have any time to waste.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Who has something at stake here?

a dor pode ser tão forte que as pessoas chegam a imaginar que viver com dor tamanha não vale a pena. É melhor morrer. Na morte não se sente dor.

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for?

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.