Quotes About Value

No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?

Samobójcy doszli wspólnie do wniosku, ?e chocia? ?mier? jest w ?yciu najwa?niejsz? spraw?, to w ko?cu nie jest ona a? tak bardzo wa?na.

A century from now," he murmured as he lifted a page and examined it against the light, closing one eye, "almost all the contents of today's libraries will have disappeared. But these books, printed two hundred or even five hundred years ago, will remain intact. We have the books, and the world, that we deserve. . . . Isn't that so, Pablo?" "Lousy books printed on lousy paper.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

el dinero de los tontos es el patrimonio de los listos.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

In our society the elderly are regarded as biodegradable and superfluous, instead of what they really represent: a biological elite who, with weathered wisom, have much to offer the world.

Sometimes what matters more in a job is not how much you earn, rather what you can save and do with the little you earn." Ashu Shamy

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn't working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn't working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn't working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn't working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich business men owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

small things comes in big packages.*

Loving is never a waste of time.

A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.

The intrinsic value of an asset is determined by the cash flows you expect that asset to generate over its life and how uncertain you feel about these cash flows.