Quotes About Value

When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap.

You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece – that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece – that wants doing!

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Today we are called new writers. The coming tomorrow, considering us old, will lock us in closets, but that does not mean we have lived in vain.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Hast thou not perfect excellence, ?tis best To keep thy tongue in silence, for ?tis this Which shames a man; as lightness does attest The nut is empty, nor of value is.

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

?lkbahar gibi bir mevsimi olan bu dünya, üzerinde ya?anmaya de?er...Ne olursa olsun...

bir zamanlar birbirlerinden ayr?lmak, birbirlerini kaybetme ihtimalinin korkusunu çekmi? olmasalar, belki de birbirleri için ne kadar k?ymetli olduklar?n? hala bilmeyeceklerdi.

Bir kitab? okurken geçen iki saatin, ömrümün birçok senelerinden daha dolu, daha ehemmiyetli oldu?unu fark edince insan hayat?n?n ürkütücü hiçli?ini dü?ünür ve yeis içinde kal?rd?m.

Hayatta hiçbir ?ey u?runda ölmek için istenmez. Her ?ey ya?amam?z için olmal?d?r.

Su mundo de humanos standard: Una burbuja donde nada sino lo humano es oído o visto realmente, donde nada más que lo humano importa y lo demás es paisaje, mercancía o comida.

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

If we had no problem with biology, we would not make a distinction between who was who. Everybody would be known for what they are worth; whether somebody is male or female would be irrelevant.

So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with nothing to complain about, you will not value food, peace, love, compassion so much.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

Time is more important to me then distance

I would rather have a mule I can depend upon than a race horse that I can't depend upon.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else, for this type is not time-conscious. [...] In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines succes or failure.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us

Value of a corporation should be distributed not only to its leadership but also to the communities in which it operates and to the world

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.