Quotes About Value

It's very hard to rank performances. It's very difficult, and it doesn't really matter if you rank performances.

The ranking... it's just a number.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Great books are rare.

Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live.

Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

I've never been a label-obsessed person. I indulge in shoes, but I rarely will ever buy full-price.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Exchange rate understandings are of little use on their own.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

Our whole lives, did any of us actually think a quarter of a percent was actually an interest rate?

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.