Quotes About Value

Job presses his point that it is bad policy for God's most faithful people to suffer (theologically counterintuitive).7 Caught on the horns of this dilemma, what is a God to do? This is what the book is going to sort out. Because the book is about God, the teaching that it offers is valuable to all of us. It does not tell us why Job or any of us suffer, but it does tell us a bit about how we should think about God when we are suffering. This is what we really needed to know anyway.

To Fran, for choosing me over a rich guy.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Pirates owner and real estate baron John Galbreath owned a horse named Roberto as well as a ballplayer of the same name, and the two meant about the same thing to him.)

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

The Jedi had always preached against forming connections, to prevent their acolytes from putting too much value in any one relationship. In so doing, they had unwittingly trained their students to be the perfect fugitives, able to cut and run at any moment. As long as they didn't stop to care, they could go on indefinitely.

As stated earlier, you don't sell what it is you claim to offer. You sell what the eventual buyers think they are going to get from your product. For instance, insurance sales folks don't sell insurance; they sell peace of mind.

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

With the benefit of hindsight it is arguable that the Royal Navy would have had better value from the 15in-gun battlecruisers for which sketch designs were prepared in November 1921, and which were subsequently rejected in favour of the slow, heavily armoured 23-knot battleship.

La gente se sacrifica sin cesar para que otros puedan vivir. Los soldados en combate. Los bomberos en un edificio en llamas. Los policías en las calles de una ciudad. ¿Es ti vida tan feliz, tan productiva y tan importante para que asumamos automáticamente que es más valiosa que lo que podría costar?

A veces pienso que nos pasamos tanto tiempo tomando precauciones contra eventualidades terribles que no nos queda gran cosa que valga la pena.

If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing.

Recuerda lo que valga la pena recordar. Ignora el resto.

No one will be buried with the epitaph 'He maximised shareholder value

People often say that shareholders 'own' the company. They don't, as you will find out if you turn up at Apple's spectacular new headquarters campus at Cupertino or Berkshire's small office suite in Omaha, Nebraska, to assert your 'ownership'. What shareholders own is their shares, and ownership of shares confers a variety of rights. The value of a share is the value of these rights.

I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person.

It would have been a longer and slower job, Im sure, and probably there would have been a high price to pay. But what is the price of freedom? Whats the price of life? Donald countered bitterly.

How many of your snapshots could easily be replaced by a thousand identical others? Is there any value left in taking yet another photo of the moon, or the Taj Mahal, or the Eiffel Tower? Is a photograph just a kind of souvenir to prove you've been someplace, like a prefabricated piece of furniture that you happened to have assembled yourself?

Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.

Time is the currency of our life—how we spend it defines our existence.