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Quotes About Value

Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall. You can't get that bottle back!
~ Len Evans
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.
~ Mark Ruffalo
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
~ George Washington
Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.
~ Randy Komisar
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
~ Mario Puzo
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
~ Bernard Baruch
Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence.
~ Graham Hill
Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.
~ Greg Behrendt
If I could take my entire savings in place of something, I'd chose time.
~ Jang Keun-suk
If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.
~ Seth Klarman
Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.
~ Seth Klarman
At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.
~ Sumner Redstone
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.
~ Alexei Shirov
Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.
~ Benjamin Graham
The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.
~ David Harvey
Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.
~ Doreen Massey
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
~ David Brainerd
We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.
~ Ruth Stout
I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.
~ Sean Connery
In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important
~ Matt Smith